Hello Earth 2021. You are in the midst of realizing what kind of real trouble you are actually in, in regards to your actions causing unsavory change to the planet, you see it now through the lens of a global pandemic and biblically scaled natural disasters like epic wildfires, floods, and droughts.
Let us tell you, it doesn’t get any better.
Hence, why we
are writing to you now (from our virtual metaverse 50 years into
your future), because you do have a chance to change course and
make progress to combat climate change. And if you do so now, both
of our futures might be okay.
How did we end up in this virtual metaverse you might ask? Well to
put it simply…
We ended up here as you might imagine because
global warming made Earth uninhabitable. But luckily we had
advanced technology just enough to be uploaded to a virtual world
to escape what might have been a hellish nightmare for the human
psyche which we maybe deserved.
We have terraformed this world to the best of our abilities, some
glitches of course, to reflect the Earth as it once was. It's
not real though and most of us know nothing else. But real Earth
must have once been soooo gorgeous.
The longer disappointing story is that we didn’t do anything to
stop it, even though we knew about it way before it was a
recognized issue. We had become capitalistic slugs, because we
felt comfort in it as the only system the world worked within. We
became engrossed in consuming commodities at a rate that was not
ever going to be sustainable for our planet.
We didn’t end up demanding change in how corporations functioned.
We didn’t end up demanding more from our governments. We didn’t
end up changing our exorbitant consumption of resources and
goods.
It all seemed okay until it wasn’t anymore.
Governments and corporations only kept their profit-motive
interests in mind, and this meant exploiting Earth’s resources
until there was no more to physically exploit. We ended up losing
99% of earth’s species and inhabitants within a few years, where
now we all exist in dust and ash and a row of computer servers.
But, alas there’s some hope for you...
During our
metaverse’s construction we discovered a set of messages along the
way with a specific set of instructions that we wish to pass onto
you. The messages serve as a code of ethics to practice, in the
effort to remind humankind of what they can do today to provide
Earth with a habitable tomorrow.
The instructions read that if the messages are spread among you,
they will help to save the planet. They will incentivize the
people of Earth to demand that the ecological protection of the
planet be addressed by governments and corporations through the
removal of capitalist profit motives.
If earth’s inhabitants do so, and speak loudly for change, then
there is a chance that Earth and its creatures will make it.
What we do in the next few years really does determine
if we are looking at just a few generations of a disruptive
climate that can eventually regain its balance or we have
unimaginable and increasingly out of control climate problems for
1000s or 10s of thousands of years.
