Virtue of Being

A first home dies. A second home lives. But who pays the rent on forever?
When the environment turned against us, we did not adapt. We engineered.
We built leviathan pipes to drain the rising seas. We erected barriers of heavy light to hold back the tides. We built ships to outrun our own limits. We cracked open the fabric of spacetime to feed our boundless consumption and wove consciousness into living fields of energy.
From the chaotic shores of a near-future Lagos to the gilded decay of a d...