> We live in ecologies, not economies. That depends on what "we" means. If "we" means human meat machines, that's arguably true. On an evolutionary timescale,

> We live in ecologies, not economies. That depends on what "we" means. If "we" means human meat machines, that's arguably true. On an evolutionary timescale, the global ecosystem is incredibly resilient. We could likely take out most multicellular species, and within a billion years or so, they'd get replaced. The problem, of course, is what we'll have for dinner, in the interim. And maybe we could work around it all. The "free market" to the rescue! But damn, that'd be a different world, for sure. And if we went full virtual, we could let the global ecosystem recover. Or just use the mass for something else.