Where there’s a Will there’s always a Way.
Let’s imagine we’re a not so distant observer, viewing the
blue-green jewel of the Earth over the last century – watching the gaily
canopied merry-go-round of Gaia spinning and wobbling from the wings of the
solar stage. What would we witness from the perspective of someone who can see
the Big Picture?
Obviously, we’d be amazed by the spreading, glowing weave of
beautiful illumination as the darkness of night was gradually dispelled across
the faces of continents. We’d watch a bright network of energy, spreading
tendrils from node to plexus of some strange, glowing organism’s rapidly
growing nervous system.
We’d see that almost every piece of living green touched by
this unearthly light rapidly died out, all the land around it swiftly burned
into desiccated desert. And we’d note that this fey light was the spoor of a
spreading mass of insect-like hives that grew like the tall nests of termites.
Most obviously, we’d note the rapidly changing colours and
textures of the planet, and probably realise that something that lived in those
nodal nests had destroyed most terrestrial and aquatic life forms in an
amazingly short time. Ancient, irreplaceable forests and ecosystems that took
millennia to grow, gone in the blink of an All Seeing Eye.
We’d watch what the insectile denizens who inhabit the
sterilising nests are trained to call ‘the march of progress’, rapidly reducing
the fertile Earth to sand, rock and mounds of bleached bones. We’d see the
rivers dry up and the oceans turn toxic. It would all turn pretty ugly with
amazing speed.
