Earth Infected!

Mankind is a rash ... a disease ... a parasite on the face of the planet!

I remember something like this being said in the Matrix (first part - the only part that made some sense). But at that time it just sounded like a funky dialouge. Today I could feel the truth in it.

Ok, enough melodrama ... I took a rick from goregaon to powai today and passed through Arey colony. There were quite a few beautiful hills along the way till 2 years back. While I passed them today, I saw something wierdly awesome! The first hill had buildings till its foot hills, leaving the hill free and covered with vegetation. The second hill had buildings climbing up its slopes upto midway, leaving very little vegetation, but there was a huge banyan tree right at the top. The third hill ... well ... it was gone. It was covered with buildings and the only sign of there ever being a hill was the sloping roads in that area of human existence.

Now, if you were to look at the planet as a life-form from space, some 1000 years back you would have seen a very healthy planet with some bacteria on the surface doing something. You would see earth tolerating them and not doing much (like you being lazy and not squatting a fly sitting on you).

200 years back you would see earth getting bugged as the bacteria spread all over and do wierd things creating ugly nests of their own. In its anger, earth would squat the bacteria (earthquakes, floods, typhoons). But the bacteria would just move around from one place to another (like a musquito who just hops from one hand to another).




And now, the bacteria have spread all over earth's body - either earth will take a bath and wipe of all the bacteria (a great flood on melting of the polar icecaps) or earth will die of the cancer that is mankind and therefore mankind will die with it.

:) It all sounds mighty grose doesnt it?

Cheers!