The Red Hand, 10th Day of Hagwinter, 526 M.E. (Castor): "A man will walk five miles through the freezing rain just to sit in a noisy tavern where the bartender remembers his first name. Nobody dies from lack of advice,; people die because nobody touched their shoulder for ten years." - Anton Chekhov.  

Thousands of dead birds have been washing up on the coast of California due to climate change. The warming waters are causing rockfish and other prey of the common murre to go to deeper waters and the birds can't reach them there. Consequently, the murres are starving and dropping dead into the ocean, eventually washing up on Cayucos Beach along Big Sur.

The universe is indifferent, it cares not whether the birds live or die, or if the climate is warm or cold. Any meaning found in existence is a human invention.