In 2015 her speculative fiction was included in DEVOURING THE GREEN::
fear of a human planet: a cyborg / eco poetry anthology, published by Jaded Ibis Press.
Recently her speculative fiction was included in DEVOURING THE GREEN::
fear of a human planet: a cyborg / eco poetry anthology, published by Jaded Ibis Press.
Not exact matches
Once the most
feared disease on the
planet, smallpox killed countless people in the course
of human history.
Leo is hell - bent on getting his
human butt off
of the
planet, and with his homing device showing the spaceship that his
human friends are on is nearby, but it's in the treacherous Forbidden Zone where not even the toughest
of apes
fear tread.
Well, it's the year 2029 (implausibility # 1: call me a pessimist, but space travel seems far too advanced in this film to believe that the year will be only a generation ahead
of us... oh well) and a space station close to a nearby uninhabited
planet sends off a chimpanzee in a space pod to do some stuff (it's not clear exactly what) and when
feared lost, his bestest
human buddy Leo Davidson (Marky Mark, The Perfect Storm) gets in a pod
of his own and goes in after him.
Aliens have conspired to keep a small group
of aliens and
humans trapped on a toxic
planet, until the survivors have become so strong they now
fear to let them out.
Like hundreds
of millions
of people, I share the
fear of runaway global warming and ocean acidification,
of losing the richness
of life forms we
humans share the
planet with,
of plastic and other toxics substances contaminating the biosphere.
The partisanship mostly is political for reasons you can put down to economic or fundamentalist religious
fears (most
of the wing - nut followers in the «anti-AGW» camp, who are effectively «hypochondriacs» in a sense, and who firmly believe the
human race is a disease on the
planet.
We can reasonably surmise that Lomborg is simply expressing his
fear in the only way he knows how, by attempting to fight off the harsh realities
of climate change and all that it portends for
human populations with another version
of reality painted by his own imagination to protect him from facing the difficult and highly inconvenient truths our
planet is communicating to us.