Their form is established by the organism itself, not imposed by the environment. By their high activity, organisms speed up the slow natural cycles and in so doing maintain themselves and the rest of the world in a permanently sustainable steady state far removed from chemical equilibrium. So accurate is the biosphere's system of balances and adjustments that, for example, the oxygen concentration in the air has not measurably varied during the 80 years for which accurate measurements have been available. In an oxidising Earth, organic compounds should steadily be destroyed. Iron poses a specially crucial problem.
All life needs iron to mediate the vital redox reactions of metabolism.
There is an important distinction between amount and kind of energy. But the predominantly long wavelength radiation would be quite insufficient to sever chemical bonds and life would be impossible. The cycles of the physical and living world were designed by the Creator to be permanently sustainable, maintaining an optimum environment for living things. People are accountable to their Creator. In the last century, man's industrial activities have accelerated the natural cycles, but in violent disregard of the Creator's laws.