When things went wild

It has been nearly 43 years now. Forty-three years since the wild returned to the city. It took an unprecedented viral event to bring to life the dreams of many a wildlife conservationist. It was the year 2022 when Covid-22 was declared a pandemic and data, at least until it was kept, showed huge loss of lives. 

So much so that data analysts at one point stopped keeping count, eventually erasing the job field of data analysis altogether. Covid-22 did not just cause massive loss of lives, it took away jobs, brought back wildlife to the cities (which is really not where they belong) and in turn nullified the jobs of wildlife conservationists as well.

As their jobs slowly phased out, many took to teaching 'the history of wildlife conservation'. That was considered the traditional choice. But not for billionaire child Adum Trom who, this year, decided to jumpstart his political career by re-introducing the need for conservationists and get the votes of the sizeable number of those who were out of work. How would he do it?

To answer this and many such pressing questions, this correspondent got in touch with him to hear some of his more radical political ideas for the upcoming election year.

"I believe the only way we can turn matters back in favour of humans is by obliterating the wild. It is easy. I will slowly start by reopening factories, but I will also have to make sure I get a large number of people willing to work for bare-minimum wages.

"I will make sure I erase this concept of eco-socialism, socialism, etc. that Thornberg introduced, you know? She made factories evil. Well, I have news for her. Factories feed people. They fed our ancestors. We need capitalism back again. If we can bring back capitalism, forests will suffer again, so will the ocean and wildlife will be rare and wildlife conservationists will have only me to thank."

Adum's ideas are radical, to say the least, but history has shown that the strangest of leaders have been in positions of power at pivotal moments. Case in point: the year 2020.