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Writing for UC Berkeley research in 2022, media specialist Edward Lempinen explained that Christian right leaders routinely preach now that they are in an "all-or-nothing struggle for existence, where the end justifies the means."

These distractions keep us from confronting reality: facilitation may be real, but so is the Darwinian struggle for existence.

The improvements that have occurred certainly do not mean all is well; recent events such as the loss of Tahlequah’s calf remind us that although the overall health of Puget Sound has improved, many species still struggle for existence.

“When the struggle for existence has become so difficult, why conceive ornaments and color combinations when there are so many more practical and especially more necessary things to do?”

But she homed in on a vaster silence of “those whose waking hours are all struggle for existence; the barely educated; the illiterate; women. Their silence the silence of centuries as to how life was, is, for most of humanity.”