The world is a beautiful place. It is a world of immense biological diversity. It is a world of tremendous wealth and value. The human family does not realize how significant a place this world really is in a universe of barren worlds.
You do not realize the significance and value this will be given by those races who are aware of your existence. Those few races who have been observing human behavior and human history, they—with only a few exceptions—view you as chaotic and barbaric. They are concerned that you are destroying the wealth of this world, a wealth that they want to have for themselves.
Humanity has evolved in a state of relative isolation, relative because the world has been visited throughout its history, particularly with the advent of humanity. Periodically, the world has been visited by different races coming to seek the biological wealth of the world and also to hide things of value in the world, things that the native peoples in earlier times would never find or suspect.
Your world has a long history of visitation, but colonization in the world by foreign races has never been successful, for reasons that you might not expect. Advanced technological races function mostly in sterile environments. To come into a world of such biological diversity, with countless biological agents, produces a hazard for such races. While they may be able to spend time in this world on board their own craft or even to build facilities here, the biological hazard of the world is too great, and the risk of contamination is too significant.
Humanity has adapted to these conditions with few exceptions, and so it is hard for you to imagine that an advanced race would have such difficulty being here. Even if they could breathe your atmosphere, which many races could not, they would have to face a great risk of contamination, for they do not have the adaptive abilities or the resistance to function in such a biologically diverse environment.
You, of course, have adapted to this with few exceptions. And some people think that with advanced technology you can overcome such obstacles. But biological contamination is a very serious problem within the context of visiting other worlds, particularly worlds where there is biological diversity that is foreign from your own native world. It is a problem of great significance in the universe amongst races who travel and engage in the complex array of involvements with other worlds.
The human family, of course, knows nothing of this, being that you are still isolated in the world and have not been able to escape the boundaries of your world in any significant way. It is still widely believed amongst the human family that the universe is a great empty place, and if there is intelligent life out there somewhere, it is very rare.
Because you have not yet passed through the threshold, a technological threshold that stands between you and traveling in this Greater Community of life in the universe, you cannot imagine how other races can travel from world to world. So you are handicapped both by your isolation and by your technological limitations.
But the truth of the matter is that beyond this solar system, you live in a greatly inhabited part of the universe. Beyond this solar system, there are great avenues of trade and many trading nations that have long established their networks of commerce. War and conflict have been suppressed, and freedom is rare within this larger arena of life.
Here is your world, a world of great value, a world of value to any technologically advanced race. For the vast majority of technologically advanced races have outstripped their own world’s natural resources and must now travel and become engaged in complex and restrictive networks of trade to gain what they need—not only to provide for their technological requirements, but also for things that are more basic, such as biological materials for food production and the creation of medicine, and biological engineering and so forth.
It is hard to imagine for humanity how technological achievement has come at such a great price. Yet you are beginning to pay such a price within your own world at this time. As your technology begins to accelerate in its evolution and development, you find yourself outstripping your world’s natural resources at a frightening pace. You find yourself degrading your natural environment and impacting even the climates of your own world.
Other races, of course, have followed this same destructive path only to find themselves greatly imperiled because they cannot provide for themselves, having damaged or disabled their own natural world’s life-sustaining functions. Now they must seek resources beyond their world—resources that are owned by others, resources for which they will have to compromise themselves and accept the terms of engagement, which can be very restrictive.
Once these nations become part of these larger trading networks, they find that they must conform to the requirements and expectations of others or face the terrifying prospect of being denied the acquisition of resources.
War and conflict within such an environment become suppressed to maintain the stability and security of the trading networks. Should a nation resist or try to militarily seize what it needs, it will be opposed by hundreds of other worlds.
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