EVERYTHING IS CONNNECTED

hey yall so I watched a documentary and now I can't stop thinking about the interconnectedness of everything woohoo. 
let me tell you a story about oxygen yall. You'll have to bear with me for a sec while I explain other stuff. So theres a salt desert in Africa that has massive dust storms all the time. and this dust travels across the ocean all the way to the Amazon rainforest. It turns out that this dust is an amazing fertiliser and its a huge part of nurturing plant growth in the amazon. then, after all these plants have grown up, the water in the floor of the amazon rises up through the trees and into clouds above the amazon, taking a lot of good nutrients with it, where they become part of this massive flying river of sorts that takes water into the oceans off the coast of south america. at this point, its worth mentioning that even though we tend to think of the amazon as this massive source of life and oxygen for humans, it AINT. well it kind of aint. its true that it produces a huge amount of oxygen, over 20x the amount humans themselves could consume as a matter of fact. but nearly none of it actually makes it to a humans lungs, because of all the animal life in the forest. what does make up a lot of our oxygen are these tiny little microscopic organisms called diatoms. these diatoms provide half of our oxygen. they take in nutrients from all sorts of sources, flying rivers and crumbling glaciers. eventually, they die, falling like snowflakes to the ocean floor. over centuries, the ocean floor rises, the tectonic plates move and shift slowly until an ocean floor becomes a salt desert, becomes the dust in a storm that reaches the amazon, becomes a fertiliser that nurtures the rainforest, becomes water that rises up to a flying river that feeds the diatoms. And so the cycle continues.

so that was my sunday morning.

it really is amazing how everything is connected, nature is insane.