Why is life programmed to survive?

[Thumpalumpacus]

Order to whom?

To those who think in terms of order and chaos, of course.

I think you got me on beehives, but beaver dams are a hodgepodge pile of the bones and chewed off limbs of innocent trees.

The actual lay of the branches and twigs may seem disorderly, but they produce order in the environment, in the sense that they tend to reduce the randomness of currents in that body of water.

Automobiles here mean strip mines and polluting factories over there. What "order" do we add to the earth?

Metallurgy of all sorts separates the metal from its ores; refining ores is an exercise in increasing the orderliness of the metallic atoms.

Our current form of consumer civilization is causing the 6th mass extinction of earths biodiversity.  "We" are creating disorder with reckless abandon and almost zero foresight.

A reduction in biodiversity is not necessarily a reduction in order. This is a false equivocation.