When one attacks the other - Climate Change Futures

 Of course, an imagination but what happens when the models fail and large parts of the west will be badly affected.

Whether it will be due to the media frenzy on the west or probably as a result of intensifying climate related disasters, large parts of the developed world will be under severe climate stress. No one can really sustain a fire season year after year, especially when the fire season becomes a round the year affair. Equally, as no one would want to live in two feet of water at all times. They would like to run away.

Imagine, if running away means fighting over less resources. Blaming of the developing world may become the norm. While countries across the globe take this opportunity to grow at unprecedented rates, the west will throw a gauntlet and demand that everyone reduces their emission.

Countries refuse to back down. No one wants to join a losing side and they know that terminal decline is what describes the west today. They go on emitting more and more greenhouse gases though they are probably choosing the wrong method to create the right choice. Most of the burning is to develop an industry that thrives on renewables. But the burning must happen and so, it happens.

The west do not take kindly to it and they decide to do the old way - do it so that the earth does not get warmer and man made edens continue to flourish the way they had.

They attack countries, it escalates, Russia surely around and China too. Lots of fighting but this time of a different genre. Here, the attack was not against the enemy soldiers or civilians, it was at the centres of knowledge, of security, of power and of manufacturing. All the fancy missiles in a strange long distance war, used to destroy whatever the neighbour had.

So it went on and on, large parts of the world gets de-peopled, with entire continents return forests. The ones who survived form small alliances so that no one ever repeats the same old cycle of colonization. Forests thrive but there is a tension in the air. Is it the lurking presence of uncles from the north or was it the thought of who decided to turn this into a nuclear war. 

Anyways, only the hardiest survive. They and their add-ons. But soon, they die too. The earth was just too harsh to support any life for a few years, albeit less, perhaps two to three years, give or take a few. And that was the end of the last human life, in earth, in as much the reverse sequence as life was itself created.