08/20/2026
Oh man check out these hot new corals!! 😍
A year ago, I had no idea anything like this existed. I had no idea that mushroom mycelium cover forest floors, they create this superhighway between trees that protects tree roots, they share nutrients/water with trees, the trees use that highway to share information with one another, that the millions of tons of mushroom spores that are released into the air create climate and rain. They are also some of the best tasting mushrooms I’ve eaten in my life that are full of anti-cancer, anti-aging, adaptogenic qualities that make our bodies better at dealing with environmental stress. They are truly amazing creatures, as are our coral reefs.
But if we don’t have any forests they can’t do their job. If we don’t begin paying attention to the planet and who we vote for, who we buy from, our own consumer habits, it will all go away. Our planet will change in fundamental ways that will make life as we know it unsustainable.
Climate change is real. There’s an idiot trying to destroy parts of the Big Bend National park right now to put a border wall in an area that has 1000 foot cliffs. Climate change is real.
Oh and guess what? I’m STILL here bi***es, I’m still growing corals and selling corals. Except now I’ve spent a year in the AMAZING forests of NY and PA. I have learned so much that I had no idea about and I’ve learned that our super biodiverse ecosystems like coral reefs, rainforests, hemlock forests, share the same thing in common; they need US. They need us to wake up and make real changes. They need all of us to give a damn.
Our planet will keep going if we destroy everything, the human race may cease to exist but the planet will keep going, species that survived our age of stupidity will flourish again and new species will come into existence. Or we could just give a damn now and enjoy the paradise that is our planet. Right now, every day our planet and its creatures are co-existing in a harmony that benefits the other. Humans should be caretakers, not exploiters. This is our home, our only one.
Mars has almost no atmosphere, it has massive wind storms that rage for over a year, it has no oceans, no lakes, no rivers, no trees, no life. That’s our closest “habitable planet”. We have only ONE Earth, one home, one place full of so much biodiversity that we haven’t even discovered most of it. And we’re killing it; simply because we need more stuff, we need more money, we need more gadgets, and AI needs to do everything for us that’s why we need to cut everything down to build more AI data centers.
Are you happy with that future? A future where there are no coral reefs outside of our tanks… those of us who have actually survived the raging new climate we have created because it was easier to stick our heads in the sand and keep making money and keep voting for idiots.
