So I was eating live bunnies and burning money (or whatever it is you think I would normally do) after writing my last post, when it dawned on me: a shrinking ray would solve everyone’s problems. First off, if we shrunk everyone and everything, we would have more space, and as much of it as we liked if we fitted a little dial on the ray to determine which size to shrink us to. This would mean that over population of the world would no longer be a problem, not to mention the benefits it would have for our energy consumption, as we would need significantly less fuel to power all of our tiny things. We could also diversify the world, build up more colonies, more countries, which would mean more holidays. Even better, we could rejuvenate a large portion of the free space and rebuild rainforests. I mean, a huge sky scraper could be a city – a big city – so the rest of the space can be healed. One felled tree would be enough for an entire populations miniature sized books and recourses to last for ages.
There are a few draw backs. We would need to shrink every single animal, including the insects, to avoid being trampled by a huge puppy, or engaging in wars with beetles. But they are technicalities. We could figure all that out while we’re big.
This realisation has really made me question why scientists are putting so much energy and research into creating efficient solar panels and complicated things with waves and the wind. Surely a shrinking ray is far easier…
PnL.x
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