[doodaddy]

Though, couldn’t you say that the boom and bust cycle is the equilibrium; it’s just charted on a longer timeframe? But when the booms get bigger and bigger each time, there’s no longer equilibrium but an all-consuming upward trend.

[numpad0]

There are numerous arguments wrt life and entropy, and one of it is that life must be more-efficient-than-rock form of increasing entropy.

The blind pseudo-environmentalist notion that life other than us are built for over the top biodiversity and perfect sustainability gets boring after a while. they aren't like that, not even algae.