All Blog Posts“I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You’re a plague and we are the cure.”
– Agent Smith from the movie The Matrix
population growth
Imagine
Imagine being transported to the surface of the moon and going back in time 1,000,000 years. You look over the horizon and see the little blue marble known as earth. Imagine that time for you was sped up and that every moment from 1,000,000 years ago until now passed by in the span of 10 minutes right before your eyes.
You see the continents slowly move. You see mountains spring up, and coastlines fall into the sea. You see volcanoes. You see ice ages. From here, at this speed, these things would appear to you like the birth, death, and metamorphosis of life itself on a planetary scale.
Then with just a few seconds to spare, you see something else, something never before seen on the face of the planet. It starts slowly, with a few small settlements. A few larger structures emerge: pyramids, temples, small cities. You see the world’s first empires spring up in Rome, India, and China. But the world is still vast, and the empires, as big as they are, are still nothing more than freckles on the face of the planet.
As the last seconds tick away something unexpected would happen. This new organism would begin to grow at a frightening rate. Small cities would turn into booming metropolises. Concrete and asphalt roads and highways would fan out and expand like the arteries and veins of a giant beast. Shipping lanes would open up across oceans, and even the skies would begin to fill with giant metal birds, servants of the beast.
What you would also see, if you had the power to, would be the great extraction of natural resources: oil, coal, precious metals. You would see the death of previously flourishing life on an unprecedented scale. You would see rivers diverted, mines extracted, and forests cleared. Everything, in the service of this new organism. You would see its waste excreted as toxic chemicals which seep into the oceans and earth, acid rain which falls from the sky, and fumes sent high into the atmosphere.
bacteria growth
In your mind and in your heart you would know this couldn’t continue – this devastating growth, this complete disregard for the symbiotic nature of all things. You would think that this new creature must learn how to live with and not live off of nature. Otherwise it would soon learn the hard way the key to survival as virus – don’t kill the host, especially if there’s only one host.
And here is where your vision would end, and where our future begins. It’s time for us to evolve or die, and that choice begins with you.
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