Conservation is the practice of restraint on behalf of something that cannot vote, litigate, or protest — which makes it an unusual form of justice and perhaps the most radical one. Nasreddin would have asked the question he always asked when he encountered an injustice dressed as a convenience: if you would not steal from your children, why would you steal from theirs? The answer, he suspected, was that they were easier not to think about.
Each step builds on the last.