The purpose of life is to hydrogenate carbon dioxide, says Michael Russell. But why can't they just rearrange into a lower energy state? Well, i mean, you put them together in a test tube, hydrogen and c o two, and you warm up... nothing happens. And that's the problem, the theyre stable molecules, and that there, they're just not easily going to react.

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