IMPENDING SCENARIOS Multibillions in human masses of middle, rich and poor classes scramble to climb the financial heights for their adamant ad-driven appetites dismissing all warnings or advice to consider the ecocidal price, but claim instead an absolute right to increase, expand and excite and double their ravenous numbers so their global collection of blunders now greedily glare at the stars to jumpstart an Earth base on Mars, though any predator population, even this scientific civilization, manages only to rise and fall in yet another barbarian brawl, like bin Laden's terrorist attack and Bush's revenge in Iraq -- that's a problem with human people, fear and desire are so deceitful, venturing investors forget the germs that quickly produce uncountable swarms thriving in crowded cities and cages and similar commercial outrages, then mutate immune to antibiotics that try to save these dollar-psychotics, our money addiction so out of control creation itself is bought and sold as oceans get tons of sludge and trash, cost advantage the corporate class, cities build mountains of landfill, oil tankers break for another spill, and coal-fired electical power sends up tons of smoke per hour where toxic rains in seasonal shower turn Earthen bio-chemistry sour, in its polluted percolating stew nowhere to hide for me and you -- so move on to a new living planet? Astronomers cannot find to scan it, no time to launch a mission out there, just to reform and peacefully share this biosphere we call Mother Earth through life and death to spirit rebirth, please say your personal prayer.

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