Oxygénia
In the year 3069, space farer Peter MacGulliver who is used to a happy life on a healthy and clean planet Earth strands on a planet which environment is completely ruined by heavy pollution, where there isn't even any oxygen left in the atmosphere and where billions of humanoid beings have to live with gas masks and rationed oxygen for their whole life – Oxygénia. On his long way to escape this living nightmare, Peter has to get to know all three major layers of the society of Oxygénia: Trunk Bearers, Rememberers and the "upper ten thousand" (one hundred lineages with one hundred members), the last ones living in a literal paradise and sheer luxury on the expense of all others. There are also some refugees and renegades amongst the Rememberers... can Peter escape Oxygénia, get back to his spaceship and his wife who is waiting there for him? This novel is a grim dark vision of what can very well become of Earth if mankind goes on the way it has done for the last few centuries. Today, there are already structures on Earth similiar to the dreadful "Oxygénia Trust" with its one hundred lineages, "elites" who don't bother about the fate of billions of other humans; there is pollution and climate change which is both very well capable of turning Earth into Oxygénia if our species doesn't change the set course very soon. See what the future might be like, and let's hope and take actions that it's not too late already, that we still can get off the path we're on to now – the path to Oxygénia.
In the year 3069, space farer Peter MacGulliver who is used to a happy life on a healthy and clean planet Earth strands on a planet which environment is completely ruined by heavy pollution, where there isn't even any oxygen left in the atmosphere and where billions of humanoid beings have to live with gas masks and rationed oxygen for their whole life – Oxygénia.
On his long way to escape this living nightmare, Peter has to get to know all three major layers of the society of Oxygénia: Trunk Bearers, Rememberers and the "upper ten thousand" (one hundred lineages with one hundred members), the last ones living in a literal paradise and sheer luxury on the expense of all others. There are also some refugees and renegades amongst the Rememberers... can Peter escape Oxygénia, get back to his spaceship and his wife who is waiting there for him?
This novel is a grim dark vision of what can very well become of Earth if mankind goes on the way it has done for the last few centuries. Today, there are already structures on Earth similiar to the dreadful "Oxygénia Trust" with its one hundred lineages, "elites" who don't bother about the fate of billions of other humans; there is pollution and climate change which is both very well capable of turning Earth into Oxygénia if our species doesn't change the set course very soon. See what the future might be like, and let's hope and take actions that it's not too late already, that we still can get off the path we're on to now – the path to Oxygénia.
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artifical trees from plastic and sold them to people for expensive<br />
prices. Counting by thousands, people were brought to the<br />
hospitals with suffocating symptoms. For those who could afford it,<br />
there were oxygen bins, tents with oxygen rich air scented like fir...<br />
The profit... yes... the profit...", ON said. "In vain were the warnings<br />
of scholars, authors and artists, in vain the best of <strong>Oxygénia</strong> rose<br />
their voices against this development. In vain had they warned the<br />
people in advance that devastation was coming, that they should<br />
save the forests and the clear waters... All in vain. Those who could<br />
have done something acted deaf. They only saved themselves. So,<br />
the <strong>Oxygénia</strong> Trust was founded. I've read this secret transcript...<br />
I've read it, and I know everything... I don't want to forget it even if<br />
I'm banned to here... I will write it down, it must not be forgotten...<br />
Oh, damned you are, be damned a thousand times!... My son, Little<br />
ON..."<br />
ONs words came fitfully. His oxygen bin was almost completely<br />
empty. In a flash, Peter turned on his replicator and refilled ONs<br />
bin.<br />
"Excuse me", ON said after he had regained himself. "I<br />
completely lost my composure..."<br />
"You were at the point when the <strong>Oxygénia</strong> Trust was founded."<br />
"Right. Danger was already very real at this time. The air<br />
temperature at our planet rose permanently, and the share of<br />
oxygen dropped from twenty to ten percent. Sulphur, carbon<br />
dioxide, lead, soot and ash polluted the air. The mothers covered<br />
the faces of the children with gauze, they didn't dare to let them<br />
outside on the street otherwise. The doctors prohibited running and<br />
other sports. The people got more and more used to the Green<br />
Drops."<br />
"What are these Green Drops?", Peter asked.<br />
"Maybe I'll remember the formula... It's a strange drug. It causes<br />
a pleasant excitement, a light intoxication, accelerates the blood<br />
circulation and makes breathing easier. But after a certain time, it<br />
causes one's arms to get heavy and inhibits the mind. Whoever has<br />
taken it becomes tired and slumps down like a bag, or he gets<br />
aroused, feels the urge to fight, maybe even takes a knife and for no<br />
reason assaults whoever happens to cross his path. At the<br />
beginning, one could get this drug only secretly, later it was handed<br />
out in pharmacies on medical prescription, especially to people who<br />
worked or lived in places where the air was already heavily polluted<br />
and bad. And since more and more people moved to the cities and<br />
lived cooped up in the overcrowded concrete buildings, they felt the<br />
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