Another Earth, the same

Even if the moon continues to shine, one day Earth will be like Mars is now. In other words, it will be a dry and desolate wasteland, a desert in both senses of the word.

In the longest chapter of the Martian Chronicles, archaeologist Spender pronounces a sentence that is particularly relevant: "History," he says, "will never forgive Cortés". In this way, Spender expresses a prophecy: humans will do on Mars what the Spanish did in Mexico: decimate its population by infecting them with a disease against which they have no defences and destroy its civilisation with little understanding of them.

Even if the moon continues to shine, one day Earth will be like Mars is now. In other words, it will be a dry and desolate wasteland, a desert in both senses of the word. This project explores two writings, Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles" and the poem "Tierra Roja" by Francisco Segovia.