Hello and welcome to revolutions.

Episode 11.

Episode 11.1, the colonization of Mars.

Any history of the Martian Revolution

must begin at the beginning. And in the beginning there was

Fospherium detradiplicium 5, known colloquially as FOS5 or P5. Absent the

discovery of this component of the Herr 24 unknown substratum matrices

existing inside the periodic table of elements, the colonization of Mars never would have

happened, and no colonization of Mars, no Martian Revolution.

So let's begin at the beginning.

As you almost certainly know from basic primary school history, Earth in the late 21st century was a chaotic mess.

Just when humanity seemed to be on the brink of transitioning to something resembling

a healthy relationship with the environment and their energy, production, and consumption,

the demands of the server farm sent us backsliding all the way to the bottom.

Instead of figuring out a way to avoid the worst excesses of climate catastrophe, we just decided to shrug our

shoulders and say, how bad can it really get? So by the middle of the 21st century, we found out.

The long predicted environmental waves started breaking one after the other.

Sometimes quite literally, as in the case of both the lost low countries and the Caribbean

in development. And just as it said that you go bankrupt gradually

and then suddenly, well, that's how it went for the earth

and its climate.

It all happened with shocking swiftness

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