If I bake a cake, I can stop it from burning. If I leave that cake baking until my children are adults, they have no way to unburn the cake. At some point, they have to toss it in the compost bin and wait before it can help fertilize a new generation.
Not necessarily.
If I bake a cake, I can stop it from burning. If I leave that cake baking until my children are adults, they have no way to unburn the cake. At some point, they have to toss it in the compost bin and wait before it can help fertilize a new generation.