I have a running joke I tell my friends that one day, the rich will flatten mountains, so the only way to see their natural wonder will be in VR. That’s when they will become mainstream. Not because they offer some new technological advancement, but because they’ve managed to capture the spaces we use to get away.
They already take the tops off mountains in Appalachia because it’s more efficient to just straight up delete a mountain to get coal than to dig into it for it
There’s a video clip of a song in French with a similar concept from 2003. A child is frolicking and playing in nature until we discover that it’s all synthetic, her time is up, and other children are lining up for their time in “nature” too. Mickey 3D - Respire on YouTube.
From a description of the song on Wikipedia:
The text of the song addresses a “kid” to alert him about the state of the world that adults will leave to him. The first part of the song deals with the story of humans’ arrival on Earth and their disturbance of the whole balance of nature. The second part imagines the future of people if they continue to do so (referring to the disappearance of natural resources, animals and even genetic modification because of pollution) and how the “kid” will try to explain to his grandchildren why he did nothing to prevent it. The third part speaks about the state of slavery, misery, and shame of the human species as well as the unpredictability of its future.
EDIT: The description is lacking. The lyrics are speaking for themselves and here’s a translation of a few key lines.
"Come and listen kid, I’ll tell you the story of mankind. At first, there was nothing. Nature was following its course. There was no roads. But man came and elements were mastered. There’s no coming back anytime soon. We even began to pollute deserts.
You must breathe. It has to be said.
In a short future we’ll have consumed nature. Your one eyed grand-children will ask why you have two. They’ll ask how you could let this happen. You’ll reply it’s not my fault, it’s the ancient’s fault, but there will no nobody left to defend you. You’ll tell them about when you could eat fruits laying in a field, how animals were roaming the forest, that every spring birds would come back.
You must breathe. It has to be said.
You must breathe. Tomorrow it will get worse.
The worst part of this story is that we’re slaves, somehow murderers, incapable of looking at the trees without feeling guilty, half defeated and totally miserable. So there is it kid, the story of mankind. It’s not so nice and I don’t know the end. You weren’t born in a cabbage, but in a hole that we fill like a cesspit."
Wild, but this is already happening - Tuvalu is being “preserved” in vr as it’s going to be one of the first island nations wiped out by climate change.
I have a running joke I tell my friends that one day, the rich will flatten mountains, so the only way to see their natural wonder will be in VR. That’s when they will become mainstream. Not because they offer some new technological advancement, but because they’ve managed to capture the spaces we use to get away.
They already take the tops off mountains in Appalachia because it’s more efficient to just straight up delete a mountain to get coal than to dig into it for it
this style of mining also requires fewer operators than a deep mine. it has had deeply devestating consequences to me and my neighbors
Well here in america we already have flattened mountains. And also maybe bombed our own citizens who felt some sorta way about it.
There’s a video clip of a song in French with a similar concept from 2003. A child is frolicking and playing in nature until we discover that it’s all synthetic, her time is up, and other children are lining up for their time in “nature” too. Mickey 3D - Respire on YouTube.
From a description of the song on Wikipedia:
EDIT: The description is lacking. The lyrics are speaking for themselves and here’s a translation of a few key lines.
"Come and listen kid, I’ll tell you the story of mankind. At first, there was nothing. Nature was following its course. There was no roads. But man came and elements were mastered. There’s no coming back anytime soon. We even began to pollute deserts.
You must breathe. It has to be said.
In a short future we’ll have consumed nature. Your one eyed grand-children will ask why you have two. They’ll ask how you could let this happen. You’ll reply it’s not my fault, it’s the ancient’s fault, but there will no nobody left to defend you. You’ll tell them about when you could eat fruits laying in a field, how animals were roaming the forest, that every spring birds would come back.
You must breathe. It has to be said. You must breathe. Tomorrow it will get worse.
The worst part of this story is that we’re slaves, somehow murderers, incapable of looking at the trees without feeling guilty, half defeated and totally miserable. So there is it kid, the story of mankind. It’s not so nice and I don’t know the end. You weren’t born in a cabbage, but in a hole that we fill like a cesspit."
Wild, but this is already happening - Tuvalu is being “preserved” in vr as it’s going to be one of the first island nations wiped out by climate change.