Dependent or Independent

Is everything dependent or independent from each other in such an ecosystem? The text continues after the image.

 

 

Actually it’s both. It’s a false set-off. It’s called interdepedence which means simultaneously dependent and independent. That we don’t directly see this false set-off is and are encouraged to think either/or is due to multiple-choice tests. These kind of tests instill in us to think in terms of or is or that and one single right answer.