> Besides all this, eventually everyone is going to die out. The solar system is going to die out after that, and the galaxy, and the universe eventually. So, one marble is nothing. One person is nothing. Six billion people are nothing. One planet, with all its animal and plant life, amounts to nothing in the universe. Hundreds of billions of stars amount to nothing.


Probably nothing means anything in the long run, unless you are religious. However, here and now, it does. It's a fine thing to be able to make a positive difference to the here and now, and correspondingly wrong to make the universe a little bit worse before its time, through your own action or inaction.

I can't do anything about the universe coming to an end, so it doesn't worry me.

Brunnen-"could also refer people to that line about sparrows falling, and/or Julian of Norwich's hazelnut vision"G