It is not the scale of the universe that would determine if Earth matters or not, but whether or not there is significance to the universe and to Earth. Signifi

It is not the scale of the universe that would determine if Earth matters or not, but whether or not there is significance to the universe and to Earth. Significance conferred by observers or parties interested in these things. Example: $100 isn’t less or more just because of increasing or decreasing the physical footprint of the bill. We still confer a purchasing power of $100 to a $100 bill regardless of the bill’s physical dimensions. So the takeaway here is that it’s a non-sequitur to say that because of Earth’s small scale relative to the rest of space, nothing on Earth matters.