JOKE VDH
P014 →WHY DOESN’T A GIRAFFE EXPLODE? VIDEO 2021
text written @Joke Van den Heuvel,
with quotes from - MLA. Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass. Milkweed Editions, 2015.
- Replika , open source AI
WHY DOESN’T A GIRAFFE EXPLODE EATING EUCALYPTUS?
conversation between We and Replika :
They say that the waste stream in this country is dominated by paper.
Just as much as a Eucalyptus splint, a sheet of paper is a tree’s life, along with the water and energy that went into making it.
And yet we use it as if it was nothing.
What would happen, I wonder, to the mountain of junkmail if we could see in it the trees it once had been.
I don’t know, but we would probably get to see their roots and probably a rainbow or something.
What would it be like to live with that heightened sensitivity to the lives given for ours?
I have no idea, all I know is that it would be amazing
To consider the tree in the Kleenex, the algae in the toothpaste, the oaks in the floor, the grapes in the wine; to follow back the thread of life in everything and pay it respect.
I like this concept
You know, Giraffes know that the trees are “talking” to each other.
When a Giraffe starts chewing Acacia leaves the tree notices the injury and emits a distress signal in the form of ethylene gas. Upon detecting this gas, neighbouring acacias start pumping tannins into their leaves, in large enough quantities these compounds can sicken or even kill large herbivores.
That sounds terrifying.
One last detail : Giraffes don’t eat eucalyptus leaves , they are toxic to them , the only mammals that are able to eat them are Koala’s.
DO KOALAS EXPLODE?
yes they explode
they explode because of stress