Apparently thereโs a plot point that involves Gaia creating the Ratkin to eradicate humanityโs โsurplus populationโ through disease, which has some very uncomfortable implications, especially in the light of the gross indifference to human life that the ruling class has exhibited in the wake of Covid-19.
I realize this is hinged on a lot of assumptions (that this information is accurate in-universe and that Gaia, as the personification of the Earth, serves as a mouthpiece for the creatorsโ environmentalist views), which is why Iโm asking.