Long-Term High-Yield Investment
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There are 1.2 million of them, little biological gems, more precious than the most precious stones, evolutionary miracles tucked away in the side of a mountain way up there, where mountains are perpetually frozen, or at least should be, a sort of rainy day fund, a genetic IRA to be withdrawn only in case of emergency should humans or the planet go berserk, an unlikely investment in hope, a commitment to the belief that we can overcome, that we can prevail, a recognition that they alone hold the wild and exuberant future of all life on Earth.
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