The Belial Blood (The Belial Rebirth Book 4) by R.D. Brady

Author:R.D. Brady [Brady, R.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 48

Rome, Italy

The plane touched down with a short hop. The metal beast raced down the runway for a little bit before the brakes were applied.

Gedeon sat at a window, staring out at the rushing landscape. His knuckles were white as they gripped the armrest. Slowly, he released them.

Flying was not natural. Only the animals with wings were supposed to be up in the air. But humans had subverted that nature and overcome that weakness to create planes.

Gedeon curled his lip.

Humans were always taking things that did not belong to them. The air did not belong to them, and yet they had conquered it. The same with the sea, and now they had even shifted into space.

And each time they moved into one of these areas, they left an ecological disaster, each turned into a human garbage dump. The seas were perhaps the most egregious case. There were 5.25 trillion pieces of trash in the ocean, with one to two millions tons being added every year. Only 269,000 tons floated on the surface while the rest were pieces of plastic microfibers.

Humans had created a practically invisible poison to choke out sea life. But they also created large eyesores, water testaments to their careless disregard for nature, such as the five large garbage patches strewn across the globe. Rather than specifically created, they had been formed by the currents of the ocean gathering all the trash carelessly tossed in, grouping it together en masse. The largest garbage patch was the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which was twice the size of Texas.

The carbon dioxide levels made it clear that the skies were no better. Those levels were higher today than at any point in at least the past 800,000 years. Over the past 171 years, humans had raised the level of CO2 by 48% since 1850, a greater amount than what was seen in the previous 20,000 years.

And now space was a junkyard, with different countries just leaving their space junk up there to the point where it now endangered satellites and space stations that orbited the earth.

Humans were a plague of locusts destroying everything they touched. Thanks to humanity, the extinction rate was anywhere between hundreds, if not thousands, above the natural base extinction rate. This was not the first extinction period that the Earth had gone through, but humanity had urged on the death of millions of creatures at a much faster rate than before, even to their own detriment.

As the number of creatures on Earth was reduced, humans pushed more and more into habitats where they did not belong. As a result, humans became exposed to more and more diseases.

The creatures that would provide a buffer to protect humanity were among the first to go extinct, while those that spread disease proliferated and survived. It was in humanity’s interest to protect these creatures, yet it was those chasing the mighty dollar and the short-term gains they brought that held the most sway.

Gedeon pictured humans when they had first crawled out of the muck.

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