Crazy to think that, except for certain extremely isolated places, like the bottom of the ocean, nearly every calorie of energy on earth was put here ... by the sun. And a lot of it has ended up perma-trapped inside of biomass. And the sun just keeps blasting us with more energy.
Yeah, I continue to be amazed by the fact that we have biological systems that turn CO2 and Water into Sugar. And the basic loop is simple enough we can teach it to high schoolers!
Science has proven what various native cultures and Buddhists have always said: we're all part of a circular system, and we're just borrowing certain elements and energy before returning it to the earth.