Bob Novella

And in return, they help the plants access the nutrition that they need.

So the plants are much more healthy because of this.

And, you know, you could also draw a parallel here, as hokey as this sounds, but it's kind of like Avatar, you know, with that network thing.

That existed in that movie.

You think that the planet is, you know, it has a consciousness of some kind or whatever, you know, and I think that's probably where Cameron got his idea because, you know, that network is there, you know, we've known about it.

We just don't know a ton of details about it to this point because there's just so much more ahead of us to learn about it.

And they are a major part of the ecosystems that are out there.

And they're a big player in this whole thing.

And I was curious to know, what would it be like if this didn't exist?

What would be the major differences that we'd see out there?

But it's a massive part of the root structure, supports the soil.

And again, it helps move carbon underground.

And the study estimates that we can't mess with this because we need it.

We absolutely need this to be happening.

And I just think, you know, Steve was saying, you know, as we move into, you know, we're going to 8 billion people.

And I was reading a news article today about having 10 billion people on the planet and what impact that will have on the amount of land that we have to use in the farming.

And again, we're using most of the arable land that there is out there.

Like there isn't like all these swaths of land that we that we haven't explored yet that we could use for farming.

Like it's either going to be living space or.

farming or unfarmable areas so we need we it scares me to think we're going to be relying in the future not on more more land for farming but better farming practices and we got to stick to that because if we start cutting into forest and start killing these networks that are sequestering carbon that we could be make things worse you know oh yeah i mean if you know that that total biomass here is the equivalent of 10 years of carbon that we're releasing into the atmosphere and