A Mandate from Heaven

by Mary Tzu

Many years after The Legend of Korra, a new crisis threatens to once again throw the world into chaos. One fateful day Hiro, a fire bending adventurer, is offered a job to protect some farmers in a tiny Water Tribe country. The following is his own book telling his own legend that will change the world!

13. Chapter 12 epilogue

CABBAGE CORP

MEMO

To: President Mui

From: Vice President Xing

Carbon Copy: Offices of the War Department

Subject: huge profit from runoff problem

I'm sure it's come to every one's attention that there is a major ecological problem on our hand and something's needed to be done about it. The fertilizer CABBAGE FOOD ™ is responsible for a series of severe eutrophication and harmful algal blooms (HAB)s due to CABBAGE FOOD ™ runoff into local water suplies. These HABs, mostly from over-growth of the organism Cyanobacteria produce the chemical 3aS-(3a-α,4-α,10aR*))-2,6-diamino-4-(((amino-carbonyl)oxy)methyl)-3a,4,8,9-tetrahydro-1H,10H-pyrrolo(1,2-c)purine-10,10-diol, better known as [ REDACTED ], as a byproduct once they've have exhausted the majority of their natural resources. This chemical is highly [ REDACTED ], causing [ REDACTED ]. This has already resulted in several human deaths, dozens becoming sick, and complete devastation to local fish stocks, along with the death of any livestock that were drinking from contaminated water. Estimates are at 50 million yuans in damage.

This is certainly a crisis for our company. However, it is well known that the word for crisis is composed of the characters meaning both 'danger' and 'opportunity,' and this is most certainly an opportunity for our company. It has been discovered that the chemical [ REDACTED ] can be put to a number of profitable uses, most notably pesticides and military [ REDACTED ]. In the words our head scientist

"while I am displeased morally with Cabbage Corps' ™ inability to own up to the suffering it is causing by not fixing the phosphorous runoff problem, I am still pleased to be attached to this project to develop this new line of insecticide; this could save millions of people from malaria, and help to feed them with fresh food untouched by blight or locusts. While I still wish Cabbage Corps ™ would do something about the current problem it created, I hope that this new development will outweigh that damage, and that something bad be turned into something good."

DR Huang is certainly right about this last statement. The whiz kids ran the numbers, and the potential profit is in the hundreds of millions. As a matter of fact, it is so profitable that we'd actually be making more money focusing R & D on the [ REDACTED ] and letting the runoff problem run its course and paying the fines that might be levied against us than we'd lose from pumping money into R & D to fix the runoff problem. Legal says it's unlikely that we'd be fined anyway. Can't blame a company because some farmers can't read instructions. That would be silly.

Edit: DR Huang has since been terminated for holding unpatriotic views contrary to the Harmonious Worker's Party of the Earth Kingdom