Another insightful write-up!

I think I have similar 'view' but with a different language like I would say 'energy' rather than just 'sunlight' (sunlight is an energy package containing different radiations in different wavelengths) ; I would say "CO2 reducers" rather than 'Forest"; CO2 producers instead of animals and human (Human is the greatest CO2 producers ever in the the 3 billion years history of this 'earth'. While bacteria and plants have for billions of years reduced CO2 so that the earth become live-able. Human had in a last 100 years reversed this condition for life! Human is releasing billions of years of CO2 back into the atmosphere and expected to live happily forever, ...).

There are 'laws of Nature' as well as 'laws of Culture' that we must observe. In the final analysis 'Dhamma' is what we are talking about. Dhamma is essentially laws of Nature and Culture as understood by wisdom of Buddhists.