I understand the analogies being used in this essay, and I think you are a clever writer who makes excellent points about our climate predicament. But at the same time the conclusions about the meek and small seed eaters being the best long-term life strategy reduces human existence and imagination to the confines of hardscrabble survival for a small cadre of diminutive humans as the apex of biodiversity. Then what of imagination? Perhaps when all is said and done the human mind is too intelligent and too enamored with expansion to have a safe niche on Earth. Plus, our success is defined by our curiosity and abilities to exploit energy. Perhaps our fascination for space exploration and the science fiction of survival and expansion beyond Earth is a kind of acknowledgement of our unsuitability for the planet from which we arose. And the other fantasy we embrace is that of a small and long-lived population of humanoids who carry on as a cadre of earthly god creatures who assume the role of cosmic observers, thinking little of any expansion in numbers; and perhaps even surviving upon tiny bits of food and bodily cells that convert solar energy along the lines of plant life. We have the conundrum if we remain bound to Earth of needing to be small in body and appetite while at the same time, we expand our minds beyond our earthly biosphere.