autotrophs

It may be an early propagation strategy (especially for autotrophs), but it is, in the long run, overcome by checks and balances.

So then, for autotrophs like us, what does harmony and compassion look like?

It's true that only autotrophs have the luxury of a guilt-free existence.

However, most everything has access to the nutrients in those environments and the plastic eating microbes just aren’t competitive with autotrophs and their predators.

On the other hand,it does seem like the autotrophs of the journalism ecosystem are dying off pretty quickly and something has to be done.

RuBisCo is the enzyme in autotrophs that fixes carbon dioxide into organic compounds, and that is a process that decreases entropy (two molecules form one).

PE are like autotrophs, or literal vultures if you prefer.

How much energy do autotrophs and heterotrophs need to thrive?

These are autotrophs fungi, they do some kind of photosynthesis (it's absolutely not the same metabolic path, though) gaining their energy from gamma rays instead of food.

The microbial life at hand are not necessarily autotrophs or even consumers on non biological material, they are all heterotrophs made of biological material, eating each other.

It’s a niche in the market, like autotrophs.

No, phytoplankton are basically microscopic plants, they don't eat anything per se, they are autotrophs which use inorganic substances in the environment and get their energy from sunlight.

My point isn't to say "Don't eat plants." It's to question whether eating other sentient beings is really avoidable for us as autotrophs.

These species are called autotrophs ("self feeders") and they constitute the basis of the entire food web on Earth, as far as we know.

We unveiled a diverse microbial community of heterotrophs, autotrophs, predators, and symbionts, a community we refer to as the “Plastisphere”.