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Green Mars



Kim Stanley Robinson




PART 1

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---Areoformation

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The point is not to make another Earth. Not another Alaska or Tibet, not a Vermont nor a Venice, not
even an Antarctica. The point is to make something new and strange, somethingMartian.

In a sense our intentions don’t even matter. Even if we try to make another Siberia or Sahara, it won’t
work. Evolution won’t allow it, and at its heart this is an evolutionary process, an endeavor driven at a
level below intention, as when life made its first miracle leap out of matter, or when it crawled out of sea
onto land.

Again we struggle in the matrix of a new world, this time truly alien. Despite the great long glaciers left by
the giant floods of 2061, it is a very arid world; despite the beginnings of atmosphere creation, the air is
still very thin; despite all the applications of heat, the average temperature is still well below freezing. All
these conditions makesurvivalfor living things difficult in the extreme. But life is tough and
adaptable, it is the green force viriditas, pushing into the universe. In the decade following the
catastrophes of 2061, people struggled in the cracked domes and torn tents, patching things up
and getting by; and in our hidden refuges, the work of building a new society went on. And out on
the cold surface new plants spread over the flanks of the glaciers, and down into the warm low
basins, in a slow inexorable surge.
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Of course all the genetic templates for our new biota are Terran; the minds designing them are Terran;
but the terrain is Martian. And terrain is a powerful genetic engineer, determining what flourishes and
what doesn’t, pushing along progressive differentiation, and thus the evolution of new species. And as the