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If we don’t overcome this, then there’s no future for us or most things we know as life today. This could cause millions of years worth of damage to habitats and biodiversity for any surviving species. We’re not just dooming ourselves, we’re taking the whole ship down with us. Why are we still going about our days as if business can go on as usual? It’s either us or the capitalists, socialism or extinction. By the time most of you are even aware that this is a life or death struggle that requires immediate action, it may be too late to do anything about it. The longer we delay mass action, the quicker we will die in painful and horrific ways all across the planet until there’s none of us left.

look at how GENTLY they're holding Mrs. Chen's hand- THEY CARE ABOUT HER SO MUCH, love Mrs. Chen, i'm so happy she's happy

Day 10 - Perfect organism

Herissmon P-068 Alternative Art by tessy from the Official Tournament Pack Vol. 10

This card features Herissmon along with Dorumon and Salamon, partner Digimon of Characters in Digimon ReArise. Herissmon also has his favorite snack!

Lots of notes pondering this but I have definitely seen educational materials calling them "microscopic," and sometimes "microscopic plankton," and I think those sources are misunderstanding what it means that krill are, in fact, a type of plankton.

The thing is, "plankton" does not refer to the size. At all. "Plankton" refers to any living thing that is naturally carried by ocean currents more than it actively chooses where to go.

This deadly man o war with 10 meter tentacles is plankton. It doesn't swim at all and just floats idly.

This giant colonial pyrosome is plankton, such a weak swimmer that it can "steer" a little bit it can't fight against a current.

Being capable of bursts of speed but usually just drifting the MOLA MOLA is a plankton. Sometimes the term "megaplankton" is tossed around for clarification.

Obviously, large plankton are outnumbered by microscopic plankton trillions to one and the microscopic plankton are what feeds the sponges and corals and mussels and baby fish (who are also plankton) as the basis of the whole food web, so when plankton is being discussed, biologists are just statistically more likely to be talking about the tiniest kind is all.

Sometimes they specify "microscopic plankton" but the average person just thinks this is to clarify what they assumed was the basic definition of plankton. I've seen the very phrase laughed at for being "redundant!"

Most "Seaweeds" including kelp are actually huge giant multi celled algae, so also not related at all to plants! As different from plants as we are from fungus!

Literally this here is a forest of the planet's largest protists!!

But yes a great deal of microscopic plankton consists of animals, and it's worth noting a great deal of these are the larvae of larger sizes animals. All kinds of fish and shrimp and things start out microscopic!