Inefficiency of Parasitic Plants' existence, and Breaking the mindset of Company Culture
Company culture obsesses with the idea of being efficient, in order to maximize profits. You get more done within less time, you'll get even more things done in designated time then you get more profit. That is why, I companies idealize the idea of having robots to do 24/7 workhours because they cannot rebel and protest- and yes this is an actual statement from my Business Lecturer at my University.
This idea of a system has been rooted in our minds in the early days, to the point where we believe that anything that is efficient and still producing good result, are great indicators.
But what if I told you that Nature itself already teaches us how diversity of plants can persist for years, decades, evolving multiple times and still existed to many generations?
I'm talking about Parasitic Plants. Not the Plants that are infested with parasites- the actual group of Plants that live by the idea of taking nutrients from another plants.
I was recently listening to Common Descent's Podcast Episode on Parasitic Plants and this statement from the Guest of the Podcast, Aly, said this and I quoted, paraphrased:
"Parasitic Plants are quite inefficient, they are not as good as Animals and Fungis. Plants don't have to be Parasitic, but they continued to evolved 12 times"
This made me think a lot. The idea of nature existed to teaches us that there is another way of continue persisting and surviving for generations. Parasitic Plants are inefficient, but they continued to persist. It really is challenging our worldview of the idea that being efficient is the only way, yet Parasitic Plants existed to resist that idea
And it amazed me, the living beings are so vast and I'm excited to learn more about them, this is why I love science.
I am an artist with educational background in Science and Engineering. I had working experience as Concept Artists and Game Artist in games for 3 years and I had experience in involving real living beings and the human-made to my concept arts.
That being said, being an artist means that I love to breathe life to scientific fact! I think it gives the context more empathy and weight, and I'll continue doing it and writing it more in this blog.
I hope you love this blog entry!