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Terra Deforming
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People who try Terra Deforming see any area that is not housing humans, catering to humans, or creating resources for humans as wasted and views any effort to convert it into a human-usable space as a good cause. These changes often take place, or are predicted to take place, 20 Minutes into the Future. Because Science Marches On, these ideas have devolved into Zeerust and lead to the almost inevitable unfortunate implication that Humans Are the Real Monsters. This is rarely shown as positive, even in cases where having humans leave Earth's environment behind gives it a chance to recover. If taken to its extreme, can lead to a "City Planet", one of the categories under Single-Biome Planet. In modern science fiction, evil cultures are sometimes shown adopting this view (providing an opportunity for a Strawman Political), or else human society adopted it long ago and later suffered the consequences; either way, it's an opportunity for a Green Aesop. Compare Horde of Alien Locusts, in which the troublemakers are not Homo sapiens. |
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In the original Magnus Robot Fighter comic, North Am was a city that covered most of the North American continent. | |
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In episode 6 of Kimba the White Lion, Kimba visits the World's Fair and sees, among other things, plans to melt the frozen polar regions so the space will be habitable. | |
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During the events of "The Psychohistorians" and "The General", the protagonists visit Trantor, the capital City Planet of the Galactic Empire. It's covered in steel, and the only plants allowed to grow are on the grounds of the Imperial Palace. Making them dependent on other worlds for food. | |
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Ayakashi Triangle: Garaku had to paint a sacred tree from memory because the entire area was logged bare in the Meiji era. New trees were planted afterward, but it comes off less as nature returning than people throwing a coat of paint over destructive development. | |
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In one episode of Space: 1999, the Alphans make contact with Earth, where it's a couple of centuries later due to Relativity or something, and the entire population lives in domed cities because the outside environment is toxic. That exact phrase "Who needs nature" has become something of a catchphrase, and you get the sense that nobody on Earth is too bothered about the loss of the ecosystem. For that matter, the writers don't seem too bothered either, making it something of an evaded aesop. | |
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Civilization: Beyond Earth: The Purity affinity, in which the colony seeks to emulate Earth and its culture to impose their will on the new planet, embraces terraforming technology. One unique land improvement they can build is the "terrascape", which changes the tile into an oasis of Earth-like flora and fauna that generates exactly two basic resources of each type. Then there's Vadim Kozlov, the utilitarian leader of the Slavic Federation, who champions this mindset among the playable leaders: | |
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The Tripods: The Masters, alien overlords of earth, have "laid waste" to lands too far away from their three cities, located in Asia, Europe and one of the Americas. They also plan to replace Earth's atmosphere with their poisonous alien one. | |
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Phule's Company: Phule's Errand introduces the planet Ron'n'art which is totally roofed over, up to a mile from the surface. Making it an extreme example of a City Planet. Ron'n'art is noted as having a richly deserved reputation for decadence, corruption, and paralysis of every agency. If it weren't for the robots and automated systems, nothing would get done and everyone would starve. | |
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Sly 2: Band of Thieves villain Jean Bison lived this trope. Having become a Human Popsicle during the Canadian Gold Rush and later thawed out due to Global Warming, his mindset is that of a nineteenth century golddigger, consequently wanting to dam every river and cut down every tree for... humanity to use. | |
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This is basically the policy of the government in Silent Running, in which the last remaining forests are housed in satellites orbiting Earth. This of course annoys the Conservationist hero no end, resulting in the film's Green Aesop. | |
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"The Mule": Since the last time we saw the capital planet of the Galactic Empire, it's been sacked. Now people are subverting the metal and plastic of Trantor back into an agrarian society in order to grow food. They begin to call the planet Hame. | |
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Foundation Series: During the events of "The Psychohistorians" and "The General", the protagonists visit Trantor, the capital City Planet of the Galactic Empire. It's covered in steel, and the only plants allowed to grow are on the grounds of the Imperial Palace. Making them dependent on other worlds for food. "The Mule": Since the last time we saw the capital planet of the Galactic Empire, it's been sacked. Now people are subverting the metal and plastic of Trantor back into an agrarian society in order to grow food. They begin to call the planet Hame. |
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In the last episode of Dinosaurs, Earl ends up destroying all plant life on the planet to get rid of these vines that were growing everywhere as a result of the bugs that would normally eat them having gone extinct (Wesayso built a wax fruit factory on their breeding grounds, thus killing all the bugs). | |
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At the start of The Fountainhead, the architect hero Roarke looks out over a landscape and fantasizes about turning the trees and rocks into construction materials. | |
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The Genesis Device from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is an awesome weapon made of doomed phlebotinum (and you often get a large side order of Nemesis with your terraforming)... but also, the environments that it makes tend to collapse. In the Federation's defence, the Genesis Device wasn't intended as a weapon. They planned to use it on lifeless worlds, limiting the moral problems. In the novelization, it's explained that Reliant was searching not just for lifeless worlds but worlds which were projected to never be able to develop life on their own — even the faintest traces of amino acids would rule a world unsuitable for being remade this way. | |
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The Hainish novella "The Word for World is Forest" has Terrans logging the planet Athshe (wood is now rare on Earth) and converting it into farmland. At the start of the book, the antagonist Davidson overdoes the logging causing an island to be made useless for farming because all the soil has eroded away. After the Athsheans revolt, they maroon him on the now barren island as Laser-Guided Karma. | |
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In Northern Exposure, Maurice Minnifield sees Alaska as just a huge opportunity for business. | |
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The Eighth Men in Last and First Men are a technologically adept but spiritually arid Human Subspecies. They live on a terraformed Venus which they turned into "an engineer's paradise [...] Every inch of land served some industrial or agricultural end". | |
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Would it surprise you to find that this trope is a heroic virtue in Atlas Shrugged? From Dagny Taggert: Later, she looks at a waterfall near her wilderness cabin retreat and thinks that it should be turned into a hydroelectric plant. |
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In Paperinik New Adventures, Morgan Fairfax' original plan was to cause an apocalyptic earthquake to raise a new continent from the Pacific seabed and provide more space for people to live. This caused all sorts of reactions, even long term: Paperinik decided to oppose him appalled at the death toll, not even realizing the other consequences. One, an Artificial Intelligence programmed to always take the most logical decision, initially refused to help Paperinik due Earth's impending overpopulation crisis. He realizes the difference between "logical" and "right" just in time to intervene and stop Fairfax' plan. The US government, after finding out, could restart it... But don't even try, and instead opt to leave all the command equipment in Paperinik's hands. It's implied they later recover and destroy the earthquake generators after the Belgravian plot (see below) Oberon De Spair, a spy from Belgravia, tries to help Fairfax to restart his plan because the international chaos caused by the cataclysm would be perfect for Belgravia to sell weapons if not outright Take Over the World, and after the original generators are disposed of by the Americans he uses stolen data about Xadhoom's powers to try and achieve the same effect. As they had no idea what they actually messing with, all they got was to cause a volcanic eruption in their own secret base. Upon finding out what De Spair was up to, president of Belgravia Nestor Grimka orders the shutdown of the program, partly because you can't sell weapons to other nations at war if said nations cease to exist and partly out of genuine horror at the notion. The following events also trigger his Heel–Face Turn. Grrodon the Evronian tries to resurrect it in a changed form, as he's planning to turn Earth into a Planet Spaceship once it's conquered. He may be involved in the plan to wipe out most of mankind with an apocalyptic series of Earthquakes in Double Duck. |
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Red Mars Trilogy: This is a large part of the conflict between the Greens and the Reds, the latter of whom believe Mars should stay pristine and lightly settled. One of the original reasons for this was in order to determine whether or not there was any life on Mars before the colonization. | |
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In Space 1889, progress-minded Europeans see areas not used for some sort of direct benefit for humans as wasted. In 1889, wilderness conservation is barely in its infancy. | |
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In Star Trek: The Next Generation, it's mentioned that plans are underway on Earth to raise a new continent from the Atlantic seabed, presumably to provide more living space for people. No mention is made of how this might affect global hydrodynamics and climate, or what marine life might be wiped out in the process. This was never, ever mentioned again afterwards, however; perhaps someone, in-universe or otherwise, realized the potential for unintended consequences and vetoed it? | |
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