![]() It went through its nasty little routine over and over again for millions and millions of years. If you’re this worried about species extinction, wait until you hear about the heat death of the universe.” “I would be upset about the heat death of the universe too if human beings were accelerating the rate of it by a hundred times or more.” “And if a species’ position with respect to us doesn’t matter- you know, those amoebae they found that live at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, if they’re just as important as Chiu Chiu or my parents’ dog, even though nobody ever gets anywhere near them-if distance in space doesn’t matter, why should distance in time? If we don’t care about whether their lives overlap with our lives, why even worry about whether they exist simultaneously with us? Your favorite wasp-Adelo-midgy-midgy-” “Adelognathus marginatum-” “It did exist. You don’t like the idea that everything eventually crumbles. Honestly it sounds to me to like your real enemy isn’t climate change or habitat loss, it’s entropy. “Are you telling me that, if an asteroid smashed into this planet and reduced every inch of its surface to dust, nothing would be lost? Because nobody in particular would miss it?” “But the universe is bloody huge-stuff like that must happen every minute. “Value to who?” Resaint asked Halyard to imagine a planet in some remote galaxy-a lush, seething, glittering planet covered with stratospheric waterfalls, great land-sponges bouncing through the valleys, corals budding in perfect niveous hexagons, humming lichens glued to pink crystals, prismatic jellyfish breaching from the rivers, titanic lilies relying on tornadoes to spread their pollen-a planet full of complex, interconnected life but devoid of consciousness. ![]() “You really don’t believe that anything can have a value of its own beyond what function it serves for human beings?” Resaint said. ![]()
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