Apocalypse? Green!

Venus, Sundew: do you know what these are ?

"Do you? Do you?"

No, they're the future that's going to eat us alive if we don't stop. Evolution is already at work. Rafflesia arnoldii already stinks of dying corpses. It's indeed a signal that the end, even if not near, is coming. 

Whoops! Wrong arnoldii. I'll be back.

If you've ever watched a Venus fly trap swat a fly faster than the normal reaction speed of an average human, wouldn't you agree with me that if one of those of a proportionate size, when compared to humans were to chase us, we would be sharing the same fate as the poor fly? 

"Hi. I'm Bill."

Oh, and I must mention the pitcher plants. I think it'll be an ideal plant for the suicidal. Should those days come when vegetation is empowered, the Pitcher plant would make a great way to get rid of oneself without causing worry or the mess that usual suicides are associated with. While it’ll let you drown in its digestive juices and your own  despair, it will be having a hearty meal. Happy ending  (if you want it that way) for both the parties involved.

Or would poison satisfy you?

"Go on. I'm listening."

Golden drops of dew that look so inviting and yet are deadly poison: enjoy the Sundew. Not to anger the feminists but this plant is aptly described as a femme fatale. Beautiful, but with a killer instinct. No wonder bugs die by the dozen, enticed by it’s ambrosia. 

Afraid of your own existence? And I have only started. Poisonous berries, toxins that induce cardiac arrests, lacerating spikes, drugs that'll make you go crazy or other compounds that’ll damage you beyond repair. Plants had taken up arms against predation long ago. Though we've managed outsmart them so far, by tinkering with the forbidden sciences of genetics, someday they will reach the level of genetic hardening (advanced level of mutation in which it becomes impossible to replace or rewrite certain active sequences). Genetically modified organisms had failed to invade the market, but the question still remains, do we have the right to play God?

He doesn't count.

The price for our callousness has so far mostly been paid by Nature in the form of one disappearing species after another. Disappearance of  animal species have been largely impressed upon but very few voices have been raised against the rapidly disappearing botanical diversity. Just because high yielding cultivars are more profitable it does not mean that the wild varieties have to be wiped out.

Like every revolution that our history has seen the oppressed always rise up against the tyrants. I fear will be no different in this case. Imagine vines binding down while a menacing pumpkin smashed your head in. Pretty ugly. It's definitely not as tasty as the pumpkin pies you eat, or sounds as magical as the pumpkin pasties that Harry (everybody at Hogwarts, actually) is so fond of eating. Or if a murderous Lemon Tree first sliced you up with it thorns and then rubbed off some of the juice from one of its lemons onto your bruises? Visions definitely befitting nightmares.

The horror! The horror!

So if we are to ensure the survival of our species here on this earth, I believe it's time to repent. So instead of digging into that salad, get down before it on your knees and beg for forgiveness because even a layman must realise that even though we are so dependent on plants, they do not actually need us. So don't threaten your veggies with cookbooks and kitchens instead hope that the Greens you save today mainly protect you from the predators of their kind when the time comes.

"Chill. I'm here to save you."

I am no Nostradamus to spell out apocalypse but even though I do not have any scientific basis to support my theory, it is just that nagging fear that usually turns out to be nasty truth. So be responsible citizens today and start developing friendly relations with what you have so long considered to be your food because the wheels still in spin and the times they’re achangin'.