The last natural butterfly on Earth died on Za-0's fifth birthday. They remembered watching it through un-enhanced eyes, its iridescent wings catching the light that still made it through the thickening atmosphere. Their mother had called it a "gift from the past," this lone survivor that had somehow persisted in their climate-controlled biodome. When it finally settled on a synthetic flower and stopped moving, the automated systems had immediately preserved it in a stasis field - another extinct species catalogued for the archives.

As the year of the Palestinian genocide.

There is a longing

Where is all that passion, that enchantment?

The Current Paradigm in which we mostly inhabit and have been socialized in creates incentives and narratives that are leading humanity to the destruction of the environment and causing immense suffering to human and non-human life.