"You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness." - Terrence McKenna
They were so confident. Confident is perhaps the wrong word. Blind. For years man has occupied the red planet, Mars, comfortable in the belief that life existed nowhere but on their formerly beautiful blue planet, Earth. Years were spent gathering data. Water, air, and the ground itself examined. Surely Mars was once inhabitable but no signs of a past civilization existed. Man was too busy wondering when there was ever life there and not asking a far more important question: If there once was life what made them disappear?
Earthship Eden landed with the best of intentions. To start anew. For almost 200 years Earth was barely able to sustain the amount of life that occupied it. Pollution became the second leading cause of death after overpopulation. The seven continents gathered their most intellectual, bravest, and gung-ho citizens for what could have very well been a suicide mission.
But the mission was a success.
