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sapphi_snake said:

1. Has nothing to do with what I last posted.

2-3. Humans ARE a level of the food chain in the same way plants make up an entire level also. You can deny this all you want (because it invalidates what you claim), but it's how it works.

4. Coming from you? Really?

5. My mistake. Fish use thir gills to extract dissolved oxygen from water. The oxygen that is dissolved comes from the air and is produced by... wait for it... PLANTS!!!

Actually... Virtually all the oxygen we breath is manufactured by green plants. A total of three-fourths of the earth’s oxygen supply is produced by phytoplankton in the oceans. Algea cannot support the life located in the sea.

(Note: a plankton is a drifitng organism that inhabits the pelagic zone of the sea, a lake etc.; the phytoplankton is a plant).

1.  Look.  We were arguing about plant intelligence.  I said whether they are intelligent depends on how you define intelligence, and that they were more intelligent than you thought they were.  You said that they weren't, because it was debatable whether what they had was definable as "intelligence".  I don't know how you could mean that EXCEPT to quibble with the semantics of whether I should be using the term "intelligence" to describe what they had more of than you thought. 

3.  If you want to play it that way, basing your argument on the fact that a food chain goes like 1-2-3 corn-cows-humans, then I could easily argue that getting rid of corn would not doom humans (although it would hurt us).  Your extrapolating that into ALL POSSIBLE PLANT LIFE and still only humans on the other end is what makes you silly. 

4.  Yes, really.  The fact that we prop up the corn food chain for our own benefit is irrelevant to the fact that it is still a food chain.  Just because it would collapse if we disappeared doesn't matter.  "Don't deserve" has nothing to do with the matter at hand. 

5.  There are differing opinions on the amount.  I found data indicating that it's 50% of total photosynthesis instead of 75% of total oxygen supply (including absorption and waterfalls/waves/etc.).  And if all the plants disappeared I bet algae would pick up a lot of the slack; of course there would still be a massive animal holocaust. 



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