Hi Dave,

Interesting notions. Some sage observed that if you can't express a concept
in numbers you can't know all there is to know about it.

The bill eventually comes due and someone must ultimately pay. Sort of like
the deficit spending that we see in government. The problem gets passed
forward in time apparently in the hope that something magical (or maybe the
presumption of something totally devastating) will happen that causes the
ctrl-alt-del key sequence to be hit for a reboot.

Nature cannot loose the game, no matter what the outcome. A planet  with life
or without, nature will persist.

And so it goes...

Very best,
Joe