Answer:
Let me count a few of the ways…
- Plants do not take life of any kind to sustain their own lives.
- Plants harvest atmospheric carbon dioxide (a waste product), water and sunlight (both ubiquitous and freely available) to produce within themselves the food which nourishes them.
- Plants are born and die in the same place.
- Plants have yet to start a war, perpetrate a genocide, or kill members of their own species over disagreements about mere ideas.
- When plants die, they do not entertain silly notions of a Better Place, somewhere beyond the stars.