Oxygénia

sources, creeks, rivers, lakes and oceans were cleaned. Factories
and cities were only allowed to flood their sewages into rivers and
oceans after it had been treated in giant purification plants. Instead
of weapons; cleaning facilities, watering plants and agricultural
machines for the cultivation of the ground were built.
By international measurements, an intense reafforestation was
established, watering plants in the deserts were built, and terraces
for gardening were modelled into steep cliffs. The responsibility for
the protection of the trees and forests was transferred to the youth
of the world.
Science was in bloom again. One invention after the other was
made, already considering from the beginning that technology and
civilization mustn't need to be developed at the expense of the
natural environment. With immediate effect, all means of transport
which infested the air were banned. All factories that were
malicious to their environment were moved. Instead of the narrow
and unhealthy cities, sunny places to live were erected. At the end
of the 21 st century it came to the total disarmament. The industries
of war were halted. Their facilities of element transformation now
only serve for peace and prosperity. "We have unlimited oxygen,
forests, flowers, clear water, uninfested air, fields which harvest
plenty and millions of happy and healthy humans. That's how life
looks now on Earth."
"Who are you, and how do you come here?", again a children's
voice called.
"Who I am? I am just a simple human, a being in your language,
who came flying here through the vastness of space. I came in a
spaceship which looks like a small house in your cities, but I fell
out and don't know what became of my spaceship, and I also don't
know what happened to my wife, she was still inside. On my search
for her, I've come to you, maybe you know something about her...
Maybe you can help me find her..."
Again, the cave fell silent. The beings tried to grasp all this
incomprehensible information. Finally, a young man broke the
silence. He, too, belonged to those who lived and worked up in the
city but came down here from time to time to discuss and to think –
as there was no danger of a sudden control check here – or simply
to help the refugees under the surface, to teach them.
"I know something that maybe could be of use. I am an
electronics engineer and work on the construction of devices which
can receive and register high frequency electromagnetic waves."
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