The year 2140. The world has changed again. With only a few decades since the end of WWIII, the earth is still healing. We have just launched our third mission to Mars and Colonizing and Terra building are seen as more possible than ever. Having discovered water beneath the Martian landscape has ignited World Wide Hope.
Since the almost total eradication of the polar caps back in the 2050s, we have wised up and started (some say way to late) conserving the remainder. Life became more difficult then, but people wised up too. We barely remember the last oil war. When it finally ran out, we had to adapt rapidly. 2053 when all the oil was finally gone, a Worldwide depression almost eliminated life on our planet. Whole nations starved and water and food became scarce. It’s been almost 100 yrs., but the earth finally turned the tide.
The vast deserts of North America are still unlivable, but scientist say the average temperature has gone down by 2 degrees annually since 2080! The caps are beginning to ice over again and the flood waters are starting to recede. Vast areas of Utah’s coastline are becoming visible and it may recede to Texas if we continue to move forward!
It’s still hard to believe people actually once colonized these areas of ocean. Maybe we can again by 2350 or so, if we stay on track. The oceans radioactivity levels are dropping too. Someday we could even be able to farm the Pacific Ocean again, if we keep going down this path. One can only hope.
I remember my Great Grandfather telling me how you used to be able to see real elephants and bears and wolves "in the wild" when he was a kid. I hope we can save the animal life left for my kids. But global flooding sent many into extinction, sadly. He also used to talk about something called "islands". Apparently they were little land masses in the ocean where people went to be something called "naked and afraid". Something like Australia, but considerably bigger and woodier.
Can you imagine? Dry land with trees in the middle of the oceans where people could actually live without dying from radiation poisoning?
They had these companies back then that sucked the oil out of the ground and then filled them back up with poison. And they were popular then too. People stood in lines to pump the oils into vehicles that actually burned that oil for transport. They pumped carbon monoxides into the air and almost killed the bee populations. The best thing that could happen was the crisis of 53! Though it brought on famine and caused by war, it made us rely on other sources for power and transportation.
It contributed to vast areas of scorched earth and total extinction of many species of animals and fish, but we woke up then. Through our hard work and sacrifice we have regained ozone and are almost to 63% coverage! Doing so also help lower the earth’s temperature by almost 12 degrees too. My great grandfather used to talk about actually doing something called "camping" Supposedly you set up a temporary canvas room and lived outside! You could actually "swim" in pools of water called "lakes" and you could even catch fish that you could eat from them! They actually set fires to stay warm!
Can you imagine "living" on the surface? What a concept. Now, with the temperature averaging 145 degrees and jumping as high as 190 degrees in some areas, that seems like science fiction now. According to grandpa, they even used to grow their own food on the surface too, in vast fields. No "Dome Farms"! Hopefully we will be able to do it again; sometime in the distant future. Maybe my great grandchildren can try "farming" above ground, someday I pray.
For now though, Dome Farms work. Dairy and meat from some; fruit and Vegetables from others, and seafood from a few. Sustainable meat isn’t that hard though. Rats will survive anything, as do mice. So it only made sense to raise them domestically, so now everyone gets meat. I’m told Crow tastes like what chicken used to too. We have many good varieties too. Crickets, earthworms, crows, Mice, Rats, Cats all reproduce fast and are highly sustainable. If you can afford a little extra too, you can hunt them like pioneers used to.
I remember studying in virtual History class about a guy name Barrack Obama. He was like a regional leader in the world counsel(called the United Nations) and was called a President. I think he was an idea man who led others in his land area. But anyway, he seemed to be worried about all the things that happened, way back then. He tried to get his people to go "green"(named for the color of the earth back then). He encouraged growth of alternative energy sources. He was a founding father of solar and wind technologies, we rely on so much today.
He had an arch enemy who refused to believe the science then. He lied to the people and made them scared about this Obama guy. He made people undo all the progress Obama made and he tried to literally "erase him" from history. The phrase "dump as Trump" came from that time, and refers to his science denial and poor treatment of people and science in general. Can you imagine anyone following someone proven to be as stupid as he was? He kept his people divided and segregated and fighting each other, while he systematically destroyed clean energy, preserved land and their economy. His ideas almost destroyed the world! He ignited global warming when he opened once these sacred lands to oil companies to drain the remaining oil and pump poison back in. By undoing pollution regulations he jump started the polar caps melting and the earth warming.
He was personally responsible for the extinction of hundreds of species of animals. He helped start and maintain his peoples "race to the bottom". He helped start the decline of the global economy. He set his country up against the rest of the world and led the charge of WWIII! Once Area 7 was three times larger than it is now, and had a robust growth and they led the world. They called it "The United states of America. They had 50 segments of land, that maintained themselves individually and as whole. They used to "vote" for a leader of the 50 groups called states. Somehow they accidentally elected the stupidest man they could find to be their leader.
Many think it may have been a joke gone wrong. Many speculate he got help from other area leaders who knew how dumb he would be, in an attempt to destroy their perceived power and undermine their prosperity. Others think some rich people called Publicans got greedy and didn’t want the oil profits to end, so they picked and trained a racist candidate to appeal to folks fear and perceptions. They trashed the reputations of a Cratic candidate by creating scandals that didn’t exist and by strumming support from the less intelligent members of his party goers.
He got them angry about people that used the Arabic name for God, "Allah" and fought about the color of "Gods skin". Pigmentation was actually an issue then! He even built a wall to make sure his people didn’t escape. They used to believe "Hemp" was an evil plan that led to addiction of chemicals that the companies called pharmaceuticals produced to keep people from getting over death and disease. Addiction was a side effect that kept them profitable.
Can you imagine what dying from Cancer or AIDS or tumors must have been like? Once we learned that curing was more important than sustaining, cures became regular and we now take them for granted. Hemp led the charge. It not only brought affordable cures into our lives, but we use it for paper, plastic, linen, soaps and it is highly sustainable too. All those years Sector 7 withheld cures and sustainable synthetics away from us for some people greed.
Can you imagine? The biggest, non-addictive pain reliever in the world not used for fear of losing profits and chemical addiction sustainable. I can’t even imagine life before hemp! How hard their lives must have been. Since there demise, disease is a fluke that happens occasionally, addiction is what we do for old folks who are dying. Pain is an unnecessary evil reserved for those who are isolated from the rest of us. Hemp led that charge, and we take it for granted now. Every day for a hundred years we find new uses for it and new cures with it. I can’t imagine what it was like before.
I have heard they even used to send people to "prisons"(forced criminal concentration camps, where they forced those they perceived to be wrong or evil to live a homosexual lifestyle till they died). They actually "paid" people to keep them locked up with others who often trained others to commit better crimes, instead of retraining or reeducation. Then they actually wondered why they had crime running so rampant in their population.
They had this guy called Jeff Session, a general of the attorneys, who wrote laws so people could buy and run these private "prisons" for profit. His job was to justify the Trumps improprieties and make laws that sent people to these places, so his friends and associates could make new “criminals” to open even more yet! He helped reverse the Hemp laws and make them illegal. He also opened "The Mexican Concentration camps" in an effort to make skin pigmentations and language illegal.
Later they opened it to include anyone who called God by another language or name. They also began to include anyone who worked for "the Press" and talked unfavorable about the man we now refer to as "Don the Con", the last American to hold the title "President"(the man chosen by the masses to lead the fifty land groups called "states") before the beginning of WWIII. The day he started the nuclear annihilation of the Korean people and started the war that almost destroyed the planet, the people woke up and rebelled.
But alas, as we know now, it was far too little and far too late. That began our survival mode. Life almost ended. Entire areas of the earth were irradiated and uninhabitable. The polar caps melted at an accelerated rate and land masses disappeared as the oceans rose rapidly and with no concern for human life. Plants and animals disappeared and food became scarce. The ozone gave way and most of the earth was bathed in radiation and temperatures rose rapidly. Millions died from his actions, or as a result of his greed.
That was the day our planet changed. We became sectors. We united under the survival cause. The earth became dived into seven sectors, led by one group of chosen scientist and doctors. We developed wind and solar energies for all. We developed Hemp as an alternative fuel supply for vehicles that operated above ground and below the surface. We expanded our technologies. Virtuals paved the way for new creations. We began to gradually undo the damages done to our planet. Oceans began to recede. The ozone began to repair itself. The polar caps begin to refreeze.
We have new sustainable food sources and power. Their working on fixing the radiation soaked oceans. Space exploration is in the forefront. Mars is a reality we are exploring. Letting scientist lead our planet has been more productive than any of what they used to call "Politialicians"(Men and women who ruled over their individual land masses with titles like King and President and Prime Minister or First Stripper) They would deny common sense, logic, science and instead rule using rewritten books about their pasts originally handed down in campfire stories used to explain what they didn’t yet understand.
Eventually they put their explanations to writing and hid them in jars. They called them different things like "the Bible" and the "Koran" and "Torah" They used to fight about whose version was real or not; often killing each other to show their loyalty to their belief. Sadly most of their written works rebuked violence towards one another, and insisted on treating each other as you wanted to be treated by them. But during the 40s these guys called Preacher or Rabbis or Emirs stole money by selling something called snake oil, and promised everyone they would go to heaven if they followed their religion, philosophy, and ideologies and gave them everything they wanted.
So they had these big homes called "mansions" and they had slave who worked for them called servants. They spent others money freely like they actually deserved what they stole from their followers, who continually give it to them to try and buy their way to heaven. Sad Times indeed. Scientist let us worship as we want and the Leaders of these religions are treated just like everyone else. They now must account for any funds they are given and pay their fair share too. Being "religious" is now an individual choice. No more wars over whose book is right and whose is wrong. No more buying your way to heaven.
Since the demise of "Politiacticians" and our World Counsel ending borders and countries, people feel equal. Since the rehabilitation of people who do wrong to others, we have no use for what they call "prisons" anymore. Science has ended perversions and brain dysfunctions. Virtual teaching expands learning expediently and allows us to discover new ways and cures and technologies faster and with less problems than using real world models. AI is a norm and working to make our lives better, as things continue to get better each year. The seven sectors work for the whole and each is reliant on the other for life.
Since disarming the seven sectors of weapons of war and destroying the nuclear arsenal, people sleep better and worry less about destroying what’s left of our world. Sometime in the near future, we may be able to live full time on the surface again. Technology has the ability to reseed the earth, when feasible, and the frozen DNA of animals may bring back some extinct animal species too. My grandchildren may actually see what a real elephant or Polar bear really looks like in real life as science repopulates the surface or works on populating Mars. Science has saved us from ourselves.
Barrack Obama and Al Gore tried to warn us; and are heroes to our children, for trying to make changes sooner. People like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Donald Trump and a few others, like a guy named Paul Ryan and his friends Vladimir Putin and Mike Pence will live on as the evilest men who ever governed others. They will be the nightmares that keep our children from making similar mistakes. They will always be the monsters under our beds. The men who almost led to our annihilation as a species. The evil will linger in our memories for generations to come.
But our world is becoming better and stronger and more united. Equality for everyone is expected and a norm. Sex, religion, personal beliefs all play no business in society as we grow as a whole. We almost killed ourselves. Then Science pulled us from the brink, yet again. Our forth Hemp season grow seems to be better than before and new discoveries are made with its properties every day. Yep, we will survive our lessons from the past and grow again, better, stronger and more united than at any time ever in our past. Our race is human. Our religion is any we want. Our lives are about caring for the whole, not the individual.
There are no borders, walls, or boundaries. Each of us depends on the other for life itself. Science is unbound and unrestricted. There is no wealth and no classes. Everyone contribute to the whole as they can and as their abilities allow. Power, food, housing and healthcare are considered human rights as is education and skill training. Everyone serves a purpose. Life isn’t perfect, but it is better and getting better every day. We’re not going to blow this second chance. I hope we never become as "dump as Trump" in my lifetime or ever again in the future. Time to go to the COOP and get this week’s supplies. Then to the Doctors to get a new strain of hemp for my headaches. I’m told it has less THC and increased CBO levels from a newly made strain. Wish me luck! At sunset I’m going topside to "see the stars" again. It’s been a while since it was safe to go. I love seeing them, when it’s possible. They give me hope for the future.