If they weren't here, we wouldn't be able to talk about it.

I'd be interested to know if we're in an element rich vein of the wider universe or if all the good stuff is more or less evenly distributed?

I'm not sure but this has some interesting info such as-

>Some whole galaxies have average metallicities only 1/10 of the Sun's. Some new stars in our galaxy have more metals in them than the original solar nebula that birthed the Sun and the planets did. So the amount of "metals" like oxygen and carbon can vary by a few orders of magnitude from star to star, depending upon it's age and history.

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/9tujxn/are_the_...

Phosphorus is supposed to be rare in the wider world. Considering how central it is to everything important, life might find it very difficult to start in our temperature range, without.