re: #83 b_sharp
I don’t know that that’s possible. I think the interactions expressed in Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis will prevent that.
Of course it is possible.
All systems break eventually. Even if the Gaia hypothesis were correct, I don’t personally buy it, but even if I grant it to you, any living thing can be killed, and any system can be pushed out of equilibrium.
Entropy always wins in the end.
We, as a species are just working very hard to speed that end along.