The Plant Problem

• Plants are the primary producers on this planet.
• We can only exist through consuming their toxic waste, oxygen.
• Before plants, their food carbon dioxide was plentiful; now it constitutes less than 0.5% of air.
• Greedily incorporating it into their bodies, plants set up their own doom.
• Luckily, evolution breeds recyclers.
• It's up to us to release their sequestered food, and save them from starvation and intoxication.

We animals are only a transient stage in the development of this universe.