Loss of biodiversity is like throwing away millions of years of the results of the execution of a blind search algorithm running over an unimaginably high dimen

Loss of biodiversity is like throwing away millions of years of the results of the execution of a blind search algorithm running over an unimaginably high dimensional space. Human civilization will forever be trying to recall the dream from which it has awoken, but the details are gone and every second we are awake they slip further away. Who knows what questions we could have answered if we still had the record of that search?