When the first airplane flew in 1903, it drew a
slim dotted line of carbon dioxide on the canvas of the blue sky. It was an historical
moment, and the line was so fine, it looked like an accidental sketch done by a
child before the actual drawing starts.
In the years to come, through a fast pace change in
industries, societies and economic interests, globalization started to use airplanes to connect with thick black lines the many dots corresponding to blooming metropolis of
the world. In the fast filling drawing of the sky, the thickness of the lines depended on the different amount of
fossil fuels emitted in the atmosphere by the airplanes, but it also grew depending on how many
lines were already drawn before.
At first, you can imagine the sky was quite empty of lines, thus, airplanes could be creative and enjoyed criticizing each other’s art. There were airplanes able to draw complex patterns, other who rather remained simple, choosing to play along with the abstract canvas and the fast speeding clouds. Unluckily, it did not take long for the airplanes to realize, that unlike what they had previously thought, the blue-sky canvas was not infinite. With every day and every voyage, the free area of canvas was disappearing, now giving more and more space to a complete black cover where none of the initial art was longer visible. Airplanes ended up flying in an oil-painted black sky filled with the remains of fossil fuels combustion. They no longer could see each other’s art, sometimes they could not even see each other, because the lines, once flat, had turned multidimensional. Seen from the earth, the sky did not look that different, making it difficult for humans to speculate on what would be the consequences of that dark change. It was, thus, the planes living the real visible crisis who decided to rebel: united in an international peaceful collaboration with the main aim to save their art and most importantly the background blue canvas, they decided the strike would take different forms. Some airplanes would stop flying completely, some would communicate with other to reduce the amount of travels organizing passengers more efficiently, the most avant-gardes once would try to convert their source of energy away from fossil fuels. All of them jointly convinced the humans to do more smart working, avoid useless business trip and encourage other means of transport for short trips. The results were not immediate: only slowly started the black cover of the sky to lighten, letting spiraling views of the underlying canvas be visible again. Finally, when the background was ready to give space to new forms of arts, it was with immense surprised that the innovated airplanes realized that black was no longer the only color they could draw with, but they had blue, green, yellow and many others as well. Although it might have been easy to fall into the trap again and draw the sky filled, the airplanes had a good memory, which could not be so easily erased as the black lines: they promised to never lose sight of the wonderful atmosphere and made the humans promise too!
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