Reciting form Bill McGuire: Hothouse Earth, ‘How rapidly the global temperature will climb depends on what we do next. If business as usual continues, we could barrel through 1.5-degree guardrail in the next six to nine years and the 2.0-degree mark in as little as twenty-five years … worse news is that, according to a research paper published in Nature in 2021, whatever action we take to cut emissions, we will not be able to stop a temperature rise in excess of 2-degrees, and probably as high as 2.3-degrees.’

‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle of Life, and asks, ‘Is she a favored race?‘

‘Alfred Russel Wallace: On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of a New Species. Every species has come into existence coincident both in time and space with a pre-existing closely allied species.’

‘Blyth: May not then, a large proportion of what are considered species have descended from a common parentage?’

‘She is studying Hume’s Dialogues, quoting, Look around the universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect a little more narrowly these living existences, the only beings worth regarding. How hostile and and destructive to each other! How insufficient all of them for their own happiness! How contemptible and odious to the spectator! The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind nature, impregnated by a great vivifying principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children.

‘From Erasmus Darwin, we have, would it be too bold to imagine, that in that great length of time since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all-blooded animals have arisen from one filament, which THE FIRST GREAT CAUSE endured with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, violations, and associations: and thus possessing, and thus posing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down these improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end.’

‘Third color page, Art Bèbè 2099. Lash it to transcend it. Sandeson Gonzaga!’