{"id":64,"date":"2011-12-30T12:32:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T17:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/?p=64"},"modified":"2011-12-30T12:32:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T17:32:23","slug":"extract-from-histories-of-the-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"Extract from histories of the diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"

The roots of the Human Diaspora lie in the ecological devastation suffered on Old Earth from the nineteenth through the twenty-second century anno domini <\/em>(AD).\u00a0 By 2135, Old Earth\u2019s surface was all but abandoned.\u00a0 A traveler from the twentieth century would not have recognized the world as their own had they visited early twenty-second century Earth.\u00a0 The planet was dying, and in another fifty years, it would be all but inhabitable.\u00a0 By this time, humanity had established biospheric colonies on Luna and Mars.\u00a0 The first of the O\u2019Neill Cylinders was commissioned in 2057 AD by Lila Chen and David Brinson.\u00a0 It housed over forty thousand men, women, and children, as well as a menagerie of Earth-native creatures.\u00a0 In 2135 AD, seven million people lived in O\u2019Neill Cylinders alone.<\/p>\n

This was but the beginning of the Diaspora.\u00a0 Terraforming commenced in 2095.\u00a0 Much of the data on the science and the\u00a0 technology of this process has been lost in the intervening centuries, but this much is clear: there was a sense of urgency amongst the people of Old Earth, a realization that what they had tried to do to save their dying planet came too little, too late.\u00a0 The last recorded human departure from Old Earth was in 2153.\u00a0 A ship of twenty-seven men and women from a city called Vancouver lifted on a September morning en route for the Mars Colony at Prima Sulis.\u00a0 The Europa and Ganymede colonies were established just three years later.\u00a0 Within another hundred years, the inner ring of the Solar system was abandoned.\u00a0 Humanity, like a cloud of locusts seeking food, was on the move.<\/p>\n

The humans who began the Diaspora and the generations preceding them made many mistakes.\u00a0 They are mistakes we continue to make today, with our rapacious use of resources, the bleeding of our worlds dry ecologically.\u00a0 If we do not learn from these mistakes, we are doomed to repeat those of our forbearers.\u00a0 This is not a lesson we can afford to ignore.<\/p>\n

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The roots of the Human Diaspora lie in the ecological devastation suffered on Old Earth from the nineteenth through the twenty-second century anno domini (AD).\u00a0 By 2135, Old Earth\u2019s surface was all but abandoned.\u00a0 A traveler from the twentieth century … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-and-asides"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25yjF-12","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}