Finally a summer in the Lakeland where we don't have to speak of severe storms, insect infestations and air quality warnings. What a relief! And it's all thanks to humans and our ever-advancing technology and ability to control weather, and ultimately our own destiny, of course.
Wait one sec. What year is it? Where am I? This isn't real. Don't wake me from this delusional dream. It is so ideal.
I must be working too hard, or the hordes of mosquitoes have me running low on red liquid, or the heat and humidity followed by freak storms are getting to me. Or maybe it's just breathing in the air and what some believe are harmful components we don't test for. Whatever the reason, I'm not thinking straight, clearly.
Pour me a glass of uncontaminated water please, if you can. I'll tell you about my dream.
With all the natural damages being exacted on humans and our environment, I began researching how we, as humans, could do a better job of controlling these pesky storms and disasters, while reactively cleaning the air we breath and water we drink.
I found so much literature on humans' ability to control the environment, it would make your mind spin. Weather control spectrums, natural disaster managers, philosophies on keeping animals and insects at bay – it was all there.
Then I just happened upon this strange little article on Truqué! News that described a study done by an obscure research group out of the rainforest village Finca Bellavista.
The study claimed there is in fact a Pachamama, or Mother Nature as North Americans call it. And this “living being,” as they claim, typically focuses on the life giving and maintaining aspects of nature, by embodying itself in the form of a mother and in the state of nature as a whole.
But, as a mother, or maybe more accurately, landlord, it will punish nature's many inhabitants for a perceived lack of care.
Take those greedy dinosaurs for example, the study said. The dinosaurs are now extinct because of their gluttony towards nature in the past. Pachamama made them pay.
And now, it appears mama is out to get humans.
The study claims Pachamama is nature and nature is Pachamama. Spiral graphs show nature thriving and struggling over millennia. Right now it is struggling, but things are not hopeless.
According to the article, Pachamama is apparently fed up with the actions of humans and is out to eliminate them with earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanoes, infestations, disease, droughts, fires and anything else it can muster from the natural world to destroy what it sees as a problem – humans.
We, humans, have only one solution – find Pachamama and destroy it first.
Then I woke up to our present-day paradise.
