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Around the turn of the 22nd century, a major effort began to rewild Earth.
Most of the population were moving to megastructure arcologies, seasteads, and
space habitats. The cities of old were taking up space where life could be
thriving instead. By now, the amount of horizontal space that humans take up
is practically negligible. But these endeavors weren’t the very beginning of
it. Closer to the middle of the 21st century, people were fed up with how
their ancestors had treated the planet. They hadn’t even considered bulldozing
entire cities yet, but they still knew that more needed to be done to recover
the ecosystems that had already been destroyed. In particular, they were
worried about the Amazon rainforest. So many trees had been taken down, and
with them, the little critters that used that region as a home. They fought
back against corporate greed, and began to restore what was lost. This was
during the beginnings of worldwide universal basic income programs, so it was
easier to push back against certain institutions. Four hundred years later,
not only can we restore whole ecosystems, but create them from scratch. That
is what they’ve done here under Canopydome. While nowhere near as large as the
one in South America, or other parts of Earth, it’s still nice. When an
individual is standing there, under the canopy, it’s not like they can tell
how expansive it is. That’s the thing about a rainforest, which sets it apart
from other forested environments; you’re wrapped up in the foliage, and can’t
see very far. When you’re in it, it feels like this is all there is, and if
you’re alone, you feel that too. At the moment, there isn’t much fauna in
Canopydome, so the animal calls you hear are from hidden speakers, but I was
promised that this will change in the future as more organisms are
bioengineered to sustainable levels. They explained how there is actually
another rainforest dome, but it’s not at all accessible to the public. It only
exists to introduce various species to a comparable environment, and let them
figure out how to survive on Castlebourne, before anyone shows up to gawk at
them. Apparently, there are a lot of domes like this which serve this purpose.
That makes sense. Regenesis is a delicate process, and slow if you wanna do it
right. They could make them as realistic automatons instead, but I think they
want to be as authentic as possible. One of the reasons they’re doing this is
to preserve life, not just so it appears that life exists here. If you’re
afraid of large animals, my advice is to come here now before they show up. In
contrast, if you want to see those animals, then I advise you to wait. We’re
probably talking about five or ten years depending on your definition of the
climax community—or more appropriately their definition of it.
