However, in prebiotic chemistry, this is not the case, as the chemistry that could have occurred on ancient Earth must have been possible without the presence of a chemist. This is a regime where there remains a goal, life from non-life, but where intervention to achieve such a goal for its own sake is implausible. At first glance, this situation is hard to imagine playing out in any way that does not lead to almost certain failure. It is here that we find inspiration from the Japanese farmer Masanobu Fukuoka. Fukuoka proposed a different approach to farming, which he called do-nothing farming. Regardless of the effectiveness of do-nothing farming in agriculture, the virtues of donothing prebiotic chemistry are clear. An approach that identifies natural environments in which a certain chemical sequence is likely to produce good yields, tests these reactions within such environments, and minimises contingency, offers a straightforward method to remove the chemist. In essence, this approach serves as a bridge between laboratory experiments and sequences of events in geochemical environments whilst also estimating the likelihood of these events occurring in a specific order.