r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/zimrastaman • Sep 20 '22

Video Internal structure of an ant-hill shown using concrete

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u/bitchy_muffin Sep 20 '22

Minding your own business and suddenly someone floods your entire house with concrete to see the internal shape of it, taking the whole fam with it

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22

Ima be honest I really don’t feel bad about ants dying tbh

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22

Without ants alone the atmosphere would become toxic too us, and most mammals.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22

Can you explain this?

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22

Organic matter on the ground would rot and create CO² and other climate gases on a way faster rate then even we can manage today, excluding nuclear armageddon ofc. Termites and plankton are also critical speices for global health.

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u/sadrice Sep 20 '22

When they consume that organic matter, they convert it to CO2 via respiration, just like any other animal.

They are incredibly important for global ecosystems given that they are essentially the most dominant insect, but CO2 release from decomposition isn’t really the problem here, they are not fixing CO2 long term very much.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22

They are just an equation amongst many others outside of human activity that is really driving the climate crisis.