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Copyright ©2001 by Edward M. Lerner

First published in Artemis, December 2003


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“...Eventually reducing projected annual auto emissions by perhaps as much as five percent. The senator
also indicated that her bill would....”

Hugh Robinson angrily twisted the short-wave radio knob to OFF. Too little and far too late, thought the
Greenshield activist. Piddling improvements in cars would not begin to compensate for toxic wastes,
ozone depletion, topsoil erosion, Frankenfoods, fertilizer runoff, or—he paused to savor the lush foliage
all around him—despoliation of the tropical rain forest.

That last problem, however, was one hedid know how to address.
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Gaea was slow to notice the eruption of humanity. Within a few tens of revolutions, a mere blink of the
planetary sensorium, the primates had changed from scattered symbionts to a pandemic. In their teeming
billions, no land seemed immune from them; their wastes choked the oceans and fouled the air.

Too bad, she thought: they had been off to a promising start. Perhaps a small environmental tweak
would help.