What if plants are really farming us, giving us oxygen until we eventually expire and turn into mulch which they can consume?

When eggplants start producing eggs, OP’s question will take deeper root in our thinking.

Plants must be much smarter than us then.

Everyone be nice to plants, okay?

Considering the amount of wood furniture, wood furnishings, wood homes, wood beams, wood porches, and wood mulch that is made all the time by literally exterminating swaths of their brothers, I doubt it.

Plant CEOs: The carbon dioxide to mulch ratio is way out of balance. Any ideas?

Plant underling: Umm… unleash a human blight of some kind?

…2020…