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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ON fell silent now, and all eyes went questioningly to Peter.<br />
What Peter told them was more exciting for his listeners than the<br />
most suspending novel and more intoxicating than the drops,<br />
despite he just told very plainly and dryly about some facts. He told<br />
them that he had started from a celestial body, a planet like<br />
<strong>Oxygénia</strong>, since there were countless amounts of suns, stars,<br />
planets and moons in the universe, not one, not twelve, not thirtythree<br />
million but an uncounted number. On planet Earth where he<br />
came from, there would be as much oxygen so everyone could<br />
breathe freely and go wherever he wanted; everyone could learn<br />
whatever he pleased and that the beings which lived there, the<br />
humans, would be very happy. In Earths history there had been an<br />
epoch as well during which life had been threatened by doom<br />
because the waters had been infested, the harvest of the fields had<br />
been declining and the inhabitants of the cities fought against<br />
suffocating. There had been humans who fell down on the streets<br />
and died because of toxic fumes. Others lost their mind. The<br />
animals...<br />
At this point, a murmur went through the crowd. Peter tried to<br />
use his interplanetary translator, but to no use, most of his<br />
listeners didn't understand what animals are.<br />
"They are beings of a lesser state", Peter explained, "they can't<br />
talk... and can't think... More and more of these animals died. Life<br />
became fully extinct in the oceans. There had been areas where the<br />
animals became sterile due to the chemically toxic air... At this<br />
point, one horrified summit followed the next. Some people clearly<br />
realised that mankind was about to destroy itself if they continued<br />
to let industrial smokestacks pollute the air and industrial toxic<br />
waste infest the water, if forests were lumbered down and used as<br />
construction material. Others, however, had the opinion that<br />
everything was only half as bad. The polluted air, the toxic water<br />
would annihilate the weak majority of mankind which had become<br />
superfluous anyway. By the law of natural selection, those who<br />
were the most resistant would survive, those who had the healthiest<br />
breathing organs...<br />
But the majority of mankind decided another way. At the last<br />
moment, peoples made the saving decision. They wiped away all<br />
those who thought their profit interests to be more important than<br />
the fate of mankind. Conferences were established, and essential<br />
agreements were made.<br />
First, all atomic detonations were forbidden to reduce the<br />
malicious radiation. By international actions, the waters, the<br />
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