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[keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
And then add reproduction to that, and you have 7+ billion organisms simply creating new organisms to eat, hydrate, exercise, and eliminate waste...
Heck... "eliminate waste" is kind of a misnomer... We PRODUCE waste.
So we have billions of organisms consuming from our environment, and then producing waste, all frantically seeking any and all opportunities to create yet more such organisms.
I'm professor of Misanthropology at Cambridge. I do a whole series of lectures on this very topic.