We sometimes get alien spawn in our field. We’ve no idea what we can’t make sense of it through any of our previous terms of reference. This though, is other worldly on a much bigger scale. It’s the biggest alien spawn in the whole of the world and possibly even into the cosmos. It’s been laid at the behest of someone with vision and a big heart who got in some pet aliens to provide shelter for something really important to every human on the planet and yet so many of us fail to understand its importance or worth. They pay little or no heed to the fact that it gives us all life and a safe, moderated climate in which to live. We repay it by slashing and burning.

Deep within the bowels of the spawn something stirs and creeps and grows. It winds itself around things and it spreads out under the earth and reaches into the sky. It can withstand many things and because of this protective layer over it, it is able to flourish and thrive. It sleeps and rests while it warms itself under its lovely warm cosy blanket, where it's busy making sugar for its energy and oxygen for us to breathe.

The same can’t be said of its parents, who suffer terrible brutality. They are chopped, burned and destroyed with little care for the consequences. Its siblings die at a furious pace and most of the things that have ever been in close proximity die alongside them. They make way for crops like soya and palm oil or they are just hacked down to make shuttering that concrete can be poured into.

What is under this blanket of alien spawn and love? The biggest captive rain forest in the world of course – how could you imagine anything else?