What don’t you understand about terminal cancer? In animal bodies, it occurs when a group of cells somehow forget that they are part of a larger system (the body) and instead treat that body (and all its supporting infrastructure—e.g. circulatory, lymphatic, endocrine, skeletal, neural, etc.) as nothing more than “resources” for their own unlimited “growth.” In ecosystems, this process is known as overshoot and collapse. And for humans, that cancer is called “economic growth:” the endless expansion of resource extraction and commodity production and population, parasitizing our finite biological support system.