six poems from Earth Studies
A little explanation is first needed.
Not unimaginably many years from now, man's stewardship of his planet brings it to the point of being actually uninhabitable. However, by then his aptitude for his favourite hobby, that of transporting things from A to B, enables at least a residue of his species to escape to one of the nearer stars. Though the atmosphere of his new home (named Terra 2 in honour of his previous disaster) will support life, the planet needs adaptation to make it an ideal habitat and meanwhile life is led mainly indoors and underground.
Life goes on, and the next generation must be educated. Born on Terra 2, it is considered they need some knowledge of the history and former habitat of their race, and lessons are conducted by one Christie, an elderly survivor from the First Earth.
Some of Christie's statements are in the form of answers to questions from his students; where this is the case the questions have been put in quotation marks and used as titles. Sometimes also Christie, like most teachers, wanders from the subject in hand. Some of his less irrelevant reminiscences have been included in this written version of his Earth Studies course. These reminiscences bear as titles their own first lines. But mainly it is the lessons themselves which are set down here.
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