Thank you, wasn't sure what it was called but have witnessed it quite a bit.
I don't have the sources, but we have hydrocarbon-consuming bacteria that eat oil and plastic (and have effectively cleaned up BP and Exxon-Valdez), as well as radiation-eating bacteria that live underground that have made Chernobyl almost habitable again. I'm sure there are other strange circumstances that arise that serve to "fix" defects within nature.
To add to that, completely removing 1 species from any habitat has repeatedly shown climate shifts, but rarely outright destruction of the biome. The only time that ever happens is when an entire class of species goes missing.
I don't mean to wax philosophical here, but the cosmological basis of belief has a lot to do with it. If the order that constitutes nature itself is the product of a complete random chance, we're one random permutation away from the stasis we're in. If any form of eminence defined this universe, however, we have room for error.
Thank you, wasn't sure what it was called but have witnessed it quite a bit.
I don't have the sources, but we have hydrocarbon-consuming bacteria that eat oil and plastic (and have effectively cleaned up BP and Exxon-Valdez), as well as radiation-eating bacteria that live underground that have made Chernobyl almost habitable again. I'm sure there are other strange circumstances that arise that serve to "fix" defects within nature.
To add to that, completely removing 1 species from any habitat has repeatedly shown climate shifts, but rarely outright destruction of the biome. The only time that ever happens is when an entire class of species goes missing.
I don't mean to wax philosophical here, but the cosmological basis of belief has a lot to do with it. If the order that constitutes nature itself is the product of a complete random chance, we're one random permutation away from the stasis we're in. If any form of eminence defined this universe, however, we have room for error.