Alternate take: humans are a simple biological battery that can be harvested using systems already in place that the computers can just use like an API.
It’s understandable too, how do you convince someone to stop fighting back so their enemy will stop punching them?
Like, remember when your parents told you that the best way to stop arguing with someone was to just stop arguing?
This is the same situation but instead of just arguing they’re literally committing war crimes and terrorist acts against each other.
Hard to say who started it in the moment when both are acting, and when everyone is acting in it frankly the who started it becomes irrelevant when there is only one good solution, for everyone to stop.
True, but the planting of spruce and pine trees in areas that were deforested has created these huge monoculture “forests” that struggle to get the deciduous trees.
This is a fun comic because it tells two stories.
The old oak may have remembered the forest as it was and begrudge the evergreen new growth …. But that is a sign it’s regrowing.
Alternately … yeah, the monoculture replanting for forests is not great for the environment and helps to spread diseases.
Racist grandpa tree got a point but also … can’t see the forest for the trees.
And the southern US is where a lot of our produce comes from in the winter BUT now that they are losing the consistency of the jet stream maintaining milder temperatures they are seeing crop failure due to hard freezes they otherwise wouldn’t even have to contemplate worrying about.