It's All Performance Art 34

Once we humans are all almost  said and done as a species, I wonder how our existence on this earth would be chronicalled?  I will try to sum up our five hundred thousand years plus of history and future in just one brief blog post here, Gentle Reader.  Here goes:

This species was rather like an infectious vermin irritating the skin of our Mother Earth, rather like an attack of fleas, scabies, bedbugs, ticks, crabs and lice, but all at once and altogether.  It is alleged that they began as a species of evolving ape, tree-dwellers that decided to explore the African savannah.  They walked upright on their hind paws, and their brains began to enlarge and their intelligence quickly developed.   Their forepaws become skilled at making, crafting and holding things, and so they invented tools, weapons and art.  They began to lose their body hair and began to cover themselves with animal skins, later with cloth woven from plants and plant fibres.  They invented tools and began to use fire for cooking meat and warming themselves.  They developed language, agriculture and writing.   They began to live in cities, and their tools and weapons became sophisticated and deadly.  They learned how to extract the marrow of the bones of Mother Earth in order to make metal and their weapons became exceptionally lethal.  this species became particularly obsessed and gifted at killing and murdering its own kind.

This was a tropical animal, biologically suited to live in warm climates, but their knowledge of fire and development of clothing adapted them to unsuitable climates, where, without fire or clothing, they would have surely perished.  They dominated the earth as they spread and multiplied until almost every landmass has had to bear and suffer their presence.  Many acquired the conceit that they were apart from or above nature.  They became cities, nations and empires, strangling our Mother Earth with their growing presence.  They developed culture, art, religion.  The gods they purported to serve were outraged by their inability and unwillingness to fulfil even the most elementary tenets of religion, to love and respect others and treat with reverence and care the Mother Earth that sustained them, and the Deity collaborated with our Mother Earth to see to their much-deserved destruction.

Having long exploited and developed the marrow of our Mother's bones, called metal, they eventually discovered buried beneath the earth the blood of dragons that had lived millions of years before them.  They named it petroleum or oil and used it to fuel their vehicles, heat their homes, and manufacture objects of pleasure, utility and mass destruction.  This material they named plastic.

The smoke and fumes from burning the blood of ancient dragons fouled the air and water that sustained them, warmed the earth's climate and made our Mother Earth uninhabitable to them and the many other creatures that delighted her.  But for a few surviving enclaves, our Mother has finally shaken off this human infestation.  The remnant of survivors has yet to prove that they have learned their lesson well, and our Mother's good will alone will guarantee their future survival.