Week 8 Global Warming- Tim Pester

 

I am standing in New San Francisco, the city in the heavens. The year is 7010, and I am sitting on my hotel balcony, 3000 feet in the air, looking out at the endless ocean. Humanity was not quick enough to stop the effects of climate change over the last 5000 years. They were not smart enough to figure out a clean burning energy source, and the over use of fossil fuels just smothered the world in a green house like effect. The world’s average temperate jumped by 10 degree in the span of 200 years, in the mid 3000’s. The ice caps quickly melted 30 years after, and the sea levels rose like an unstoppable monster, as the salty water just constantly consumed beaches, then costal cities and move inland. Populations from the coastal regions had to flee to the middle of continents, and soon over population, disease and famine took roots in these places. There were multiple pandemics, that made the COVID-19 pandemics look like the common cold. For the next 3000 years life on the planet was difficult. Many wars were fought over limited resources, and diminishing land. Thankfully, there was no atomic war, as people were desperate, they knew this would only increase the hardships of the struggling human race.  In the year 6050, a great scientist, Trista Malshi, developed the clean burning energy source that world had craved 3000 years earlier. This new energy source was the catalyst for another technical and economical boom. The use of this energy allowed the human race to power cities that could float high in the skies (New San Francisco being the first). These new floating cities help to take away the burden of over population, and with new agriculture breakthroughs, food was not as scarce has it once was. Although, these floating cities were a marvel of its time, the damage to the earth had been done. The earth is now drastically different, with oceans reaching so far inland, that Las Vegas is a costal city. Many species of animals went extinctic as many regions changed environmentally.  Deserts now became wetlands, Mountain regions that once boarder coasts are now just islands peaking out of the sea.