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Herbivores cause massive devastation and destruction to plant life. The extend life's reach underground - where plants cannot live. They led to oil drilling, international flights, global warming and nuclear power. If you want to defend the thesis that the planet would be a better dissipator without them, you have quite a challenge on your hands, it seems to me.
MEP is a statistical principle. It illuminates these issues, but doesn't make them trivial. Compare with natural selection - which also illuminates these areas without trivializing them.