RE: Let's Get Metaphysical
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Galia a living organism we are for her bacteria which proliferate and for her are this desire is to without getting rid of just like us when the bacteria make us sick. Afterwards there are also good bacteria but too few for Galia to smell them. We can also see humanity as a yeast, a micosis for which we cannot get rid of, even if we use antifungals, it decreases in size but if the treatment is stopped too soon, it returns to normal. When I read your text I remembered a thought I had 20 years ago. When I move through the countryside and I see housing estates being built with 10, 20, 30 houses in an area that was previously virgin, I saw it like mushrooms growing right and left invading the rural landscape. Man does not know how to stop, he must establish himself more and more quickly and always further and further. Let's imagine that we could colonize Mars, what will happen? Total destruction of this planet. In less than 300 years war between Earth and Mars with the key independence of Mars as an independent people and nation.... Extraction of natural resources in mass trade with other planets or moons to colonize for humans....
All this is not very happy for our descendants and Gallia who risks seeing her sisters contaminated by the bacteria she gave them.
However, I hoped that humanity realizes its madness and calms this expansion and destruction of our land which welcomes us and very quickly learns to respect it.
This is a different and interesting take on it too. I have heard the idea of humans as bacteria, or cancer as others have said. I do not hold this view. Perhaps, as you say, humans are a foreign bacteria on Earth. I am an optimist, however, and I believe that humans are part of the Earth, not separate from it. Therefore, we are Gaia. Her brain. And like all organisms alive on this planet, Gaia produces pollution. If an organism doesn't produce pollution, then it's likely dead or in a hibernating state. So, the destruction we see around us is a natural consequence of Gaia being alive and exploiting her environment to grow and evolve. Life is messy business.
I see expansion beyond Mars, across the solar system, the galaxy, and the universe at large. Trillions of galaxies with a septillion stars, plus dark matter and energy to boot. I imagine that the universe itself is a giant nervous system, and we are the cells coming together and forming its components. Humans will give way to new higher structures who are more intelligent and are able to harness greater levels of energy. Borg-like perhaps. So, I don't view humans as malignant entities destroying a planet, I see us as individual neuro-components of a universal structure that is passing through different stages of growth.
Thank you for throwing your ideas in the mix!