I think this kind of imagination is important. It is incredibly humbling to be forced to reckon with the immensely long history of life-on-earth in the places where you can see its traces. It’s a sobering reminder of the fragility of life on earth; an in-your-face warning that extinction not only can happen, but is eventually inevitable.
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