The Glorious Haze
Life, death and other commodities shared with other 7 billion.

Just only for a bare moment imagine that in all the whole infinite universe that intelligent life could only evolve on planet Earth. So, we are alone. Yep, across the entire universe. No alines, no microbes on other planets, nothing. Only 7 billion people on a small rock in the middle of nowhere, and that 7 billion is currently fucking up the only comfortable place we know. The human race is peculiar. It could construct a marvelous technical civilization. According to capitalism, people are pursuing unlimited growth in everything. That’s good and simple. Growth is good, and a recession is not good. However, that requires more and more of a place where natural supplies are limited. That’s troubling and unsustainable in the long term.
We are still burning a million years old compressed animals and plants to fuel our lives to the end. With that here comes the nasty price that no one wants to pay. So the bill is shared among everyone. That’s fair and square. Global Warming, drastic weather changes, drought, crazy hot summers, Belgium sized plastic island on the ocean, mass animal extinctions, poisoned/undrinkable waters everywhere, water shortage. So in the name of comfortable consumerism, humanity slowly destroys Earth, the only livable planet we currently. Our home is on the verge of irreversible ecological, botanical and environmental destruction. Want to escape this heavy burden?
Good! Leave this place and don’t look back. But where? Mars is a barren wasteland. An endless desert. Currently, we don’t possess the technical knowledge to make it a livable place in the foreseeable future. However, why go there? To siphon out, pollute and destroy it as we do it with Earth? To be like locusts which consume everything over and over again? That’s like prolonging a slow death. I’m not against going there and living there, but it should be optional and not an urge nor a blindfold to avoid the consequences of destroying a planet. So imagine that humans are the first in the universe. Ok. So here we are. What now?

