The current US President destabilised one of the most tightly coupled junctions on Earth, then seemed surprised when the consequences spread. The deeper problem is that political, ideological and socioeconomic systems often reproduce themselves through the disorder they create.
Life may not need a planet. It may only need matter, persistent gradients of energy, memory, and enough time for (ie self-) organisation to become aware of itself.
Life does not belong to things. Things belong to life. Consciousness, relation, memory, recurrence, and form are not exceptions within reality. They are what reality does.
Daedelus Kite 