Plants Are Superior Organisms To Humans

Thanks for accepting, Con. Also, I must reluctantly point out that Con's "burden" isn't really as difficult as Con indicated. Con doesn't need to show that humans are superior, rather he needs to show that humans are either EQUAL TO or SUPERIOR TO plants to effectively cast doubt on the resolution. I affirm that plants are superior organisms to humans because: 1. Plants can produce their own food, internally, as long as they have sunlight. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... 2. Plants can reproduce efficiently without the need for a partner, and pollination can be done by wind, so no other organisms are absolutely necessary for plant reproduction. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... 3. Plants do not need shelter, and, in manycases, are a source for shelter to humans. https://www.census.gov... 4. Plants are viable in almost all of earth's climates. https://www.researchgate.net... 5. The population of plants exponentially surpasses that of humans, which speaks to their greater reproductive dominance on earth. http://www.factmonster.com... 6. Plants lived for millions of years without humans, and could continue to do so if humans died off; humans MUST have plants to live and would perish without them. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... 7. Plants actually help to reduce CO2's effect on climate change. http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk... 8. Plants provide medicine, clothing, shelter, food, and oxygen for humans and most animals. http://kids.britannica.com... 9. Without any plants, all known ecosystems would collapse, while if humans died off, ecosystems could thrive, perhaps even more so. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... 10. Plants are able to regrow appendages. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... Yeah, I know, plants can't reason, it's likely they don't feel love, they're probably not conscious, and they may lack the innovation that humans bring to the table, but these abilities/attributes are only products of our struggle to survive that plants simply need not worry about. Humans need reason to discern how to get and choose food to eat, and plants can just eat sunlight. Humans feel love, because it's needed to acquire mates and friendship, which builds society and furthers the species, but plants don't need a mate or society or any friends to further their species, because they are such self-sufficient organisms who can reproduce with the help of the wind. Humans need consciousness to interact with reality, while plants can use tropisms to detect their environment, which, because it is differential cell growth, conserves energy unlike all that thinking we have to do to merely interact. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... Humans need innovation to make better shelter, transportation, communication, and entertainment, but plants aren't as vulnerable to the elements, they don't need to travel, they don't need to communicate, and don't need entertainment; plants maintain homeostasis without all of the extra effort humans require. To sum up, Humans' existence is contingent on the existence of plants, not the other way around. Humans are constantly struggling to find food, leaving millions of humans starving every day; imagine if humans were as superior as plants and could step outside and just eat the sun...world hunger would end. Humans are so needy because we're so vulnerable to weather, we require so much energy to maintain homeostasis, we require a mate for reproduction, we require communication to attract a mate, and we get sick and need medicine; plants need sun, soil, water, and wind, and they're good, so all of those beneficial human attributes, like reason, innovation, and love are effectively unnecessary to a superior surviving organism that requires none of these things.