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.
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
purpose, anyway? Here, the void already began, the end of the<br />
world, the lifeless planet. For a trip, the oxygen supply wouldn't<br />
last... and well, the world was the same everywhere, as were the<br />
buildings and the cities of the scholars. So where to go? And for<br />
what reason?<br />
According to this, ON didn't know whether there was a guarding<br />
system around the city, some security system. Wouldn't someone or<br />
something arrest them? It was possible they had made all the way<br />
only to enter some cave and all of a sudden be back down in the<br />
concrete cubes, in the city of the beings with the breathing hose...<br />
With a strange sound, the plastic branches and plastic leaves<br />
moved as they struggled their way through the undergrowth. All the<br />
brushwood looked black, but as they progressed, this blackness<br />
turned more and more into a dark green by each step. Now Peter,<br />
too, could recognize that there were colors in the City of the<br />
Rememberers – just as ON had reported.<br />
They fought their way through the undergrowth for several<br />
hundred meters when it suddenly stopped like it was cut off. They<br />
stood at the edge of a wide plain – the ground didn't consist of<br />
concrete here but was covered by a thick green plastic mat. And at<br />
the other side of this artifical grass, houses stood surrounded by<br />
artifical bush and artifical flowers in artifical gardens.<br />
"We're there!", ON exclaimed. "We found the way back! I'm<br />
recognizing everything."<br />
Above the houses was a pale grey sky, but in any case, it was<br />
brighter than down in the concrete city. The houses weren't all the<br />
same, they differed both in material as well as in color. In front of<br />
the houses, humans were to be seen who went as deliberate as the<br />
Trunk Bearers down there. They too had masks, but a much lighter<br />
and more comfortable one.<br />
Peter analyzed the air: "Nitrogen, sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide<br />
and... look at this, ON, the air here even contains five percent of<br />
oxygen."<br />
ON nodded. "Yes, this enables for people to live without a<br />
breather within hermetically sealed working places, appartements<br />
and clubs by use of according filters and air conditions."<br />
They crossed the grass and reached the first street. No one cared<br />
for them, no one turned his head after them, no one approached<br />
them. Neither ONs grey overall nor the lumpish oxygen bin on his<br />
back raised any attention.<br />
ON grabbed Peters hand.<br />
67
Change language