[ben_w]

Nature is red in tooth and claw, it doesn't care about us.

I also find it curious how many people continue to appeal to nature, while tapping a finger against a sheet of synthetic sapphire or glass that protects a delicate sheet of semiconductors, themselves made to glow by minerals taken from all over the world refined in complex chemical processes, and that glow guided by an unnaturally pure crystal of silicon cut and marked in ways too small to be perceived with any natural vision, in order to create a set of glyphs which silently convey meaning to others worldwide via a network of similar devices intermediated by space lasers and a planet spanning grid of cables laid at the bottom of the world's oceans.

Nature gave us our lifespan for the same reason it gave wolves a decade, the same reason it has elephants starve to death when their final set of teeth fail, and the same reason it made octopods go into a self destructive death spiral as soon as the eggs have been laid.