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Podcast: The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Episode: Eat, Poop, Die: Animals as the Arteries of the Biosphere with Joe Roman
Description: (Conversation recorded on June 14th, 2024)  Show Summary: If plants are considered the lungs of the Earth, cycling CO2 into oxygen for animals to breathe, then animals act as the heart and arteries, spreading nutrients across the Earth to where it's needed most. This is the metaphor that today's guest, conservation biologist Joe Roman, uses when describing his work studying how animals such as whales, otters, salmon, and midges provide vital ecosystem services, and how destruction of their populations – caused by modern industrial systems – affects the livability of the entire planet. How has human...