RadioLab had a great podcast on this, and their punchline was: MARIA PAZ: Chris says, in a world where nothing dies ... CHRIS SCHELL: Life essentially hal

RadioLab had a great podcast on this, and their punchline was: MARIA PAZ: Chris says, in a world where nothing dies ... CHRIS SCHELL: Life essentially halts at a standstill. And yeah, everything is alive to exist in this new reality, but it doesn't change. It doesn't morph. It doesn't evolve. It isn't dynamic. The extravagant, extraordinary biomes that we currently have that exist on this planet, they all stop. MARIA PAZ: It would be as if we were living in a photograph of the world as we know it, just frozen in time. Episode: Cheating Death 9 Feb 2024 https://radiolab.org/podcast/cheating-death/transcript https://radiolab.org/podcast/cheating-death/transcript