STORY: ‘3001: A Space Travesty’

I’m really worried about Mars, Deltrine.

Gone are the wild river plains, pristine canyons and equatorial rift valley, buried long ago beneath our power and production blisters.

Now the ancient ocean boundaries are eroding and the ice caps expanding, both at an ever-increasing rate.

Things aren’t much better in the atmosphere either, where carbon dioxide levels have fallen to an all-time low – thanks, some say, to our oxygen emissions.

Catastrophic weather events, too, are a thing of the past. Right now I’d give anything for a good storm – dust or snow, I’m not fussy.

The whole climate on Mars is changing.

I’m beginning to think, Deltrine, that we should return energy generation and food production to Earth, where, let’s face it, nature is making it hard for you people to survive.

It’s funny how we humans don’t seem to have a natural habitat.

 

(Image by NASA)