Within ten minutes of Kris’s message showing up, it was in all the news-distribution media that her squadron could copy. There were also references to something called print media. Nelly had to look that one up in her archives and was shocked to discover that trees were sacrificed to make paper specifically so that information could be printed on it and sold. “What a waste of those lovely forests,” she told Kris. Nelly dug deeper into the media from the locals’ airwaves and found examples of forests being cut and bulldozed. “Why are we even fighting for these people?” Kris’s computer asked. “They’re destroying their own planet.” Kris sent Nelly to search the ship’s own historical archives of Earth in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The computer returned much chastened. “Well, at least it appears to be something that your type can grow out of.”
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