“Within a span of approximately 300 years, human activity on Earth went from dangerous to aggressively omnicidal. Once they got up to speed, Homo Sapiens required a scant 50 years to eliminate 90% of the conserved biocomplexity of Earth.

That’s where the majestic forests and thriving oceans that were the originary nurseries of life (and intelligence) on Earth -went-. It’s unfortunate that we never saw them and have only images by which to understand what they were.

At least we have some idea of the reason; convenience.

In the end? The oceans and forests were inconvenient. Living beings were inconvenient. And threateningly unpredictable.

Apparently, so, too, was human intelligence.”

— a teen from 2050 speaking to the nation from her essay on ecological resurrection