Presume that if an evolutionary species gets smart enough to create techno-industrial civilization, because it is otherwise to weak to survive unaided, its super power causes an exponential growth that consumes all resources, and fills the planet with toxic wastes. Its evolutionary branches in the tree of biosphere life rapidly go extinct. Wipe out by a TIC. It only takes one species mistake to ruin it all. Life in the universe then appears to be normally a brief self-terminating accident.