Taking the most effective actions to help these beings
More targeted interventions directly focused on helping soil life are likely to be far more impactful
Seems like we’re far from a consensus even on whether more or fewer of these organisms is the goal. You suggest that biodiversity loss is bad but Vasco Grilo suggests more monoculture farms is better because that leads to fewer microorganisms and he considers their lives net negative.
Give 1000 researchers 1000 years to study nematodes and demodex mites and I don’t believe they’ll be able to tell you whether their lives are worth living, let alone exactly what interventions would improve them.
Seems like we’re far from a consensus even on whether more or fewer of these organisms is the goal. You suggest that biodiversity loss is bad but Vasco Grilo suggests more monoculture farms is better because that leads to fewer microorganisms and he considers their lives net negative.
Give 1000 researchers 1000 years to study nematodes and demodex mites and I don’t believe they’ll be able to tell you whether their lives are worth living, let alone exactly what interventions would improve them.
A road to nowhere with great reputational cost