Reading a natural history book on to our daughter, we looked at all the strange and wonderful creatures that we only know through their fossil records: the wild monsters of the 60-million-year Devonian period, the strange forms of the Ordovician, and the dinosaurs. Trying to understand and come to terms with mass extinction events ourselves, we noticed an unfamiliar feeling that we could not quite identify at first: hope. We always spin things for our daughter so she feels safe: there is plenty of time later in her very long life to feel the anxiety and horror of living on earth under capitalism. So, for ourselves as much as for her, we explained that through adaptation life is so powerful, that, despite being burned, frozen, hit by asteroids, earthquakes, eruptions, acrid air, big oil, and the United States Supreme Court, life always finds ways to thrive. What we didn’t say during her bedtime reading, is that while it is guaranteed that humans will go extinct, likely bringing with us another great extinction event, life on this planet will thrive after we are gone. We will be the peculiar creatures only seen in the fossil records. In the meantime, if enough of us agree, we can avoid early extinction by ceasing our attacks on all the other wonderful creatures stuck living in this period with us.