Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-24150179-20150608225639

Before this we were trying to save Earth, now we are trying to be saved from it. Green is everywhere you look. Even with the occasional blue flower here and there, it really does not change the color of the earth. What once was a good message has now become a global disaster. Posters back then used to say things like “Plant Trees”, or “Be Green”. Now we don’t have a choice on whether to be green or not because it’s always green. The fires, the poisons, the laser weapons, none of them have any effect. I’ve spent so many days in this research lab searching for a way to rid the planet of this monstrous vegetation. A solution is yet to reveal itself. My lab is located in the jungle since this was the place it all began. 

When entering the lab, I am always greeted by a video detailing how the world is what it is today. Since I’ve basically committed it to memory, I close the video and proceed to sit down in my unsurprisingly mossy chair. The green is not just outside, it’s constantly multiplying without resting. However small this multiplication may be, it’s happening for sure. It all begin when we realized that we couldn’t live on this Earth if it was constantly being polluted by the toxins from factories and cars. Countless campaigns urging us to save the earth were posted everywhere. At school they tried to burn this message into our head with lessons oriented on the planet. Governments began to issue severe punishments for those who violated Mother Nature. At one point, the punishment for murder was even less severe than littering or harming the earth. Messages like “if we don’t take care of the earth, it won’t be able to take care of us” were the slogan of every single country in the world. Since the whole idea was about saving the earth so that we could live longer, saving individuals is not as important as the earth.

Next comes these things they used called Greens. The best place to find the materials is right here in this jungle. The inhabitants of this jungle were refusing to give up the seeds and grasses required to forge the Greens. The jungle people were eliminated when their leader showed further resistance. Greens were supposed to eliminate chunks of green. Like some self-healing monster, the plants just grew back again. We couldn’t overcome this green legion, yet we kept on using the greens. Who cared if millions of people died? It was to save our earth.

They continued to make me create these bio-weapons. It was to benefit the majority of mankind. It would surely make up for all the people that the “earth” did not care for. I feel as though maybe this is another way for the earth to finally take revenge upon its people. No matter how hard we try to make the earth green, it will not work. It’s been too late from the start. We’ve treated it like some sort of dead wasteland, and now it’s going to take its turn. Oh yeah, a little pollution or garbage won’t hurt anybody. That’s what you thought huh? Well what if everyone thought that way. Well, now it’s happened. All of that pollution is getting absorbed into the earth until earth could not handle it anymore. The amount of harm we have done to the earth has caused a reversal. By making the earth sicker, the earth has no choice but to get rid of the disease. If it can’t get rid of the disease directly, it must get rid of the cause. The humans are the cause. The earth has finally done what it has been waiting for all this time. The Greens didn’t help at all. It would still constantly multiply even if we hadn’t made all these weapons and campaigns. Those lucky people who suffered our pathetic Greens. Hah! If only they could see how lucky they are now. They don’t have to be strangled by the roots or covered from the inside-out with plant life. Nothing I can do now except, well, goodbye.

The earth had won at last. No more humans. No more pollution. No more sickness. No more pain. The earth could finally sleep the long awaited slumber until the next species decided to take over this new, green, and clean earth.  