Speculative Fabulation by Yuqing Wang

This is the keywords

ywang0820231_2 — 2023-12-06 18:33:18 UTC

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Symbiosis

Transformation

Humus

Community

Diversity

Migration

Roots

Entangled

Coexist

ywang0820231_2 — 2023-12-06 18:34:02 UTC

Symboisis

ywang0820231_2 — 2023-12-06 19:12:14 UTC

Coexist

ywang0820231_2 — 2023-12-06 19:12:30 UTC

Diversity(Balance)

2023-12-06 20:14:26 UTC

Diversity(Imbalance)

chenyuxuan1031 — 2023-12-06 20:15:50 UTC

Human-Bee

ywang0820231_2 — 2023-12-06 20:33:59 UTC

Under climate change, such as global warming, food and water supplies for people become scarce, while homes and livelihoods of people are destroyed. As a result, death, displacement, hunger and unemployment as well as mass migration have also occurred. But the main culprit for these extreme climate crises is humans.
Bees, like humans, suffer from climate changes. Their habitat is destroyed as a result. Habitat fragmentation increases the vulnerability of these species as they are unable to expand their range in response to climate change. The rapid change of seasons means that pollinators can lose synchronism with the flowering plants they feed on. Many species were wiped out. Fewer bees means fewer pollinators, fewer crops, and less plant diversity. In this process, human society is not only limited by the shortage of natural resources, but also its economic interests are deeply affected in honey industry.
The pattern of social interaction between bees and humans is surprisingly universal. So, in my story, humans are bees, and bees are humans. Personify these endangered bees and listen to their conversations. Learn how their fellows are wiped out under extreme climate change, how they survive, how they will protect themselves from extinction.
This story aims at alerting human beings, protecting the environment and controlling unreasonable human activities. Don't be the next bee.

Yuni Yoon

2023-12-06 20:40:59 UTC

Community

2023-12-06 21:59:19 UTC

Transformation

2023-12-06 22:13:08 UTC

Be human

yufeizhang418 — 2023-12-06 23:00:31 UTC

In our reading, the story is based on a human protagonist who wants to bond with animals and become a symbiosis to adapt to survive in a future deteriorating earth. That also leads to the assumption that perhaps animals are even stronger in the face of a deteriorating environment. Although they do not have the technology or the more flexible humanism of humans, they have a more survival-of-the-fittest instinct and a more ordered social structure, which allows the order of survival to function more efficiently in the face of a shortage of resources. So, how do humans survive when they are the underdogs and all the tools used are degraded due to resource scarcity? Based on a resource-grabbing antagonistic relationship between humans and animals, I hypothesise the following story( if the animals are bees):

Humans become the inferior party, and bees become the superior party in a harsh future environment. In the deteriorating environment, the bee keeps expanding into various kinds of bees and keeps expanding the survival space which is occupied by them, making human beings think that they can rebuild their home by eradicating the bees, making it into an antagonistic relationship. However, due to the power of the bees, humans need to learn by going inside the bee society, learning how they survive, and finding their weaknesses. As humans and bees get along, humans find it impossible to understand the order of the bees because their purpose is to survive and maintain a steady state. In contrast, humans cannot subvert their beliefs as human beings, and it is not the purpose of human existence to reduce the diversity of cultures just for the sake of survival. Humanity's values collapse due to a lack of understanding. Throughout the process, the bee race, which comes from nature, gradually assimilates the value-collapsed human beings, making them identify with the changes in the environment themselves and become parasites of the bees.

So the question arises: is it the degradation of the environment that leads to the demise of humans, or is it the demise of other species? I think it is pessimistic for human beings; to protect the environment is to protect yourself, and what you think is the extinction of other organisms is only temporary; no one will know the laws of survival better than animals; they will only evolve to become more in line with the nature and the existence of human society can not be comprehended, intelligence is not the only tool for survival.

Therefore, to protect the environment is to protect human beings from facing a crueller future. It is not the Earth that will be destroyed, but man himself.

2023-12-06 23:04:34 UTC

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chenyuxuan1031 — 2023-12-07 12:43:09 UTC