Aliens had invaded Earth. Our
industrialization attracted them, and they needed the resources of
our planet. They were strange and terrifying. Their bodies were green
and lumpy and grotesque. They spawned offspring left and right,
leaving their softball sized spores all over the countryside to grow
into the next generation. We fought against them as best we could,
but their bodies, more vegetable than animal, resisted all of our
traditional attacks. Their diffused internal organs were hard to
mortally injure as they were spread out so much. Most chemical
attacks did nothing to them, but still we fought. We tried
pesticides, which were effective, but they harmed our own food
supplies. Still, we warred on against them. Not until they left our
world, exhausted by the endless struggle. Not until we finally purged
the last of them could we analyze what they had done, what lasting
impact they had on our world. Earth was overflowing with resources
they craved, resources we had in abundance since industrialization.
We thought they came for our technology, our oil. We were wrong. They
came for our greenhouse gasses and toxins. Food in abundance, which
would allow them to thrive, which would allow our environment to
stabilize. Their excretions and later upon their deaths, their
bodies, created a super fertilizer that could improve food production
by over three hundred percent. We could have lived in perfect
equilibrium to one another, but each side responded with fear, our
fear they would destroy us and their fear they would they would
starve to death, we never sat down to speak.
- Originally mailed to Leoni Caljouw from Oud-Beijerland, the Netherlands
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