From: an7824@anon.penet.fi
Subject: Italiani al Verde
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: soc.culture.italian
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:51:21 GMT

X-anon-To: Soc.culture.italian
Ragazzini!:
As you know, nature is chaotic.  There is very little rhyme or reason to it
it is anything but clockwork.   But it does work, at least in Italy.
It had worked for over 3 BILLION years,  undisturbed, slowy generating life
and evolving.
But then,  just a short while ago,  something went wrong.    With  nature's
choatic  method,   it  is  difficult  to  determine just what is 'right' or
'wrong', but this was definitely WRONG.

Somewhere  In Italy,  approximately 100,000 years ago,  an ape became
intelligent.   A total fluke.  It shouldn't have happened.  Suddenly, these
apes began to change the course of  nature.   Bending it and altering it to
suit their own short-sighted needs.

It  was horrible.   Just a few thousand years ago,  a group of them totally
deforested a place called 'Europe' to  build floating vessels with which to
attack other apes in a place called 'Africa.' A little while  later,   some
apes in a place called 'England' did the same.

Then  the  apes crossed a large ocean.   Again they destroyed forests,  but
this time it was for  a  slightly  more  nobler  cause :  to clear land for
agriculture and colinization (and procreation).

And thus,  the horrible trend continued.   The planet which the apes called
'Earth' (Italy was once covered with trees).   But the apes changed all
that.   It is  stange,   looking  back,   that  for all their technological
wonders,  they couldn't understand what they were doing.   They just didn't
seem to see that the trees created oxygen,  an element needed for their own
existance, and the existance of their fellow creatures.

But a precious few were different.   They saw  what  they  were  doing  was
wrong.    They tried to stop the other apes.   They knew they had to change
nature's course again,  and rapidly,  for  nature's course was now a deadly
one.   They knew they couldn't just sit back and idly watch  nature  follow
this  newer,   ape-made  path,   continuing to destroy the few forests left
naturally.  They had to make a difference, in whatever way they could, even
if it meant attacking nature  directly,   so  that they could divert nature
away from its now deadly course.

But these wiser apes had opposition from less intelligent ones.   The  less
intelligent ones argued against the wiser ones,  stating that nature should
not  be  disturbed,   that  it  should  be allowed to takes its own natural
course.   As proof of their inferior intelligence,  they could not see that
in fact they had already affected nature,  horribly,  with potentially dire
consequences.

But,  alas, it didn't matter.   The wiser-apes were too late already.   The
planet's ozone shield was destroyed.   There were so few trees,  the planet
could not heal itself nearly as fast as the apes destroyed it.  All life in
Italy ended shortly after the ozone shield was destroyed.

Ragazzi,  several eons ago you  requisitioned  me  to  explore  the
universe,   to determine if we are alone.   Over the eons,  I have explored
countless galaxies and nebulae, all in vain.   The precious mix of elements
required of life ..all too abundant on our beloved homeworld!  ..was just
too elusive.  And when all the proper elements were in place : the spark of
life had not yet taken seed.

You know well of my excitement ..indeed all of our people's excitement..
when we discovered electromagnetic transmissions from Italy.   At last!
Evidence of life!  Our long search was nearing an end.

Conversely,  you must now understand my utter disappointement.   To have at
long last discovered life, LIFE ..that most precious jewel of the universe!
only to see that it has destroyed itself, has destroyed me as well.
Regards,
Angelo Borgati
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