Future of Our Species

Future of Our Species

National boundaries are not evident when we view our Earth from space. Fanatical, religious, ethnic, national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our tiny planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.

Travel is broadening, but hypnotized by mutual mistrust, almost never concerned for the future of our species, the nation prepare for death. We have guns in our hands and because what we are doing is so horrifying, we tend not to think of it much. But what we do not consider, we are unlikely to put right.

Every thinking person fears war, but many countries plan for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse. Will we ever understand that we are mad? What must happen to our world that we could tell ourselves : Enough is enough?

(Extract from The Rain, the famous SF novel by Elena and George).

What does the future reserve for our species? Illustration: Elena