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The diffuse effects of fusion scattered photons on countless chloroplasts and cyanobacteria. They captured it, worked with it, died, and sank into Earth’s crust to be cooked. Eons later, some other star dust become conscious discovered that all this death had utility as batteries. Hundreds of millions of years of sunlight had accumulated in a charge that could be dug up, transported and put to work. By men in charge. But to do what?

Well they were pretty good at assault. So they did a lot more of that. And they were really great at robbery. So there was much more of that too. But bit by bit, the batteries ran down. The men in charge had less charge to work with.

They refused to face it. Even as their charge became more diffuse, even though they every one of them were themselves a dissipative system, they could not undertsand that all this time they had been living on borrowed light.