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Imagine for a moment if you will…

Contact with an alien species.

A voyaging spacecraft colony of creatures

who would like to live peacefully here with us on earth.

They had to leave their own planet behind because it became too inhospitable…

What with the pollution,

pervasive hazardous chemicals,

unstable atmospheric climate changes,

and an ecosystem in complete free fall…

they just had to head for the stars,

and their ship

was nearly out of plutonium when they happened by earth.

And so with open arms

and bit of uncertainty about whether we really have a choice…

we let the aliens live amongst us.

Soon we discover that the new arrivals have voracious appetites,

and an affinity for resources that rivals even our own.

After only a week,

they improve oil extraction to the point where there is no more oil to drill for…

Two weeks in and there seems to be a distinct lack of trees where once there were many…

Three weeks in and somehow they manage to catch and eat nearly all the fish in the sea…

By week four and there isn’t a four legged creature over four pounds that hasn’t disappeared down their bellies…

And at the end of just a month the air is unfit to breathe,

the oceans are acidified and the ecosystem is in complete free fall…