I was just answering Colin McQueen on a dystopian scenario of our world once all humans are abducted by aliens. I started answering him, reminiscing the time of COVID lockdown and after sometime I realised that the comment was nearly the standard size of my post. 🤪 So why not create a post out of it. (Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle)
I can only imagine how the world would look like if there we no humans left on Earth. In essence, it would look something like COVID lockdown.
Fauna visits became a norm. Three days in, birds came tapping on windows to check if we were extinct yet. My house sits next to the city’s main road, which was empty due to zero traffic and Peacocks, dogs and feral cows started claiming the, then disused, road. Babblers, Bulbuls, Sunbirds decided humans were not to be feared and sat in hordes on our windows, checking out property for housing. Squirrels decided they could enter and begin claiming their nook inside our house too.
50+ Pigeons and 50+ crows sat on both sides of our building, waiting for the gang-war to begin. Hundreds of Steppe Eagles crossed overhead too close for comfort.
The trees alongside our house got so huge that their branches ended on next door’s roof and inside our windows. (We need special government permission to cut the branches but since offices were closed, no permission to be had and no one to cut the trees anyway). Ants and termites decided to take over the world, bees joined ranks with spiders in tow. Multitude of mice (no rat poison, no shops), lizards, snakes, centipedes and other ‘guests’ tried to make themselves at home. And that was just three months. Imagine three years or thirty being the only survivors of alient abduction.
I would choose aliens any day.
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