Jul 07, 2007 13:54
“Save the world for what? …Save this world? If aspects of this world could die while other portions live.” She lifted the pale sheets moving from the bed to open a white-framed window the sound of the street below poured relentless into the bedroom with industrial cold bay salt night wind. She sat crossing her legs naked on the wide white window ledge looking through the dark shadows seeing his cigarette move from the ashtray to his mouth, the black pistol on the nightstand beside him, the cash pregnant wallet under his silver Zippo, black boots neatly vacant at her bedside.
“You’re saying if some ‘people’ would die and others live.” His voice piercing the loft cutting not awake startled by the vicious city-voice spilling in through the open window behind her. Neon, Xenon, Argon, low pressure sodium light unsteady furtively illuminating her the bourbon glass ice filled. Shoulder harness patent leather Velcro tangle rigid at her tender precise downward feet heavy with her nickel-plated weapon.
“Yes, it’s overpopulation. Human population. Where is it written that we humans are to breed until we’ve killed our planet? We’re guests here. Who gave it to anyone to make or destroy?”
“Have you read the military draft resolution?” Fluid red arc silent motion carrying his cigarette across dark space, past her silhouette, falling to the street below, red arc of pleasure falling from the sky for a filthy bum’s cigarette riches.
“Portions of it. I know that there is no school deferment and that it includes men age 18 to 38.”
“There’s your answer. You’re not the only person who knows that our planet is well beyond it’s ability to accommodate the present level of population. And the men and women in the Board Rooms who mange this world know this and that they wont be successful promoting death camps or mass euthanasia.
It is clear that legitimized political territorial war against radical Muslim fundamentalist will be the forum for the next genocide.”
“Bomb the population centers? The Air Force carpet-bombing Amman, Mecca, Tehran, Damascus… How’s that possible? The entire civilized world would turn against America. There are sane educated wealthy people living in all of those cities.”
“The entire civilized world is against America. Let the rest of the world scream. They’ll never be heard if the microphones aren’t on and the CNN satellite is dead. And every twenty-four hours there will be fewer and fewer to scream.
I’ve read that with conventional weapons, without atomic or bio, we can kill one billion per day”
“Seven days to unmake man?”
“Or to allow Terra to reconstruct itself, to heal itself, with only a few million people remaining society will remake itself and with correct scientific guidance no insane, sick or deformed children will be born to burden the healthy.
The new elderly will keep the mistakes of the dead societies present in the minds of the new youth.”