Curious on some replies here. I always hear having bees go extinct would be horrible for us. Curious if that’s the worse?

      • MadCybertist@kbin.socialOP
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        1 year ago

        It is what I meant…… but I’m very happy to see some folks thinking about it from a different angle haha.

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      That’s really the only right answer. If we’re looking at the impact of a single species, as opposed to a genus, family, or order (like most of the other answers are doing, e.g., “spiders”), humans are the only single species whose absence would cause vast changes in the biosphere. We have no other close taxonomic relatives that could step into our “niche” and continue doing what we’re doing. Losing one species of mosquito (instead of the whole genus) or one species of plankton (instead of the entire… god, what, order? Clade?) wouldn’t produce any significant effect by itself.