Or they are where they are simply because they exist and that they exist without a purpose without rhyme or reason. In the view of PU theory there are potentialities and the forces of Nature, of physics are seen as the means, the tools of getting to some superdetermined endpoint. Forces of physics are not immutable, just as atoms are not immutable. Recently there was a report of one of Jupiter's satellites that shares some of Jupiter's magnetic field. And there was a recent report that the solid core of Earth spins faster than does the remainder of Earth.
Trees are pumps, long before humanity engineered pumps.
I will need to define the difference between the Earth as an electric motor and the more sophisticated electric motor built in factories. Physicists in the 20th century went hippy-like. They were too silly and dumb to realize that 'all things are of atoms' and that 'only atoms have independent existence' and that all matter is composed of springs. Physicists of the 20th century went down a schizoid path thinking that strings were of all things and that strings only have independent existence and that all matter is composed of strings. String theory is one of the most laughable contraptions physicists have ever devised.