The World In 2050

By Dylan Dowling

“Extra! Extra! Read all about it!” cried the paperboy as he walked down the street. “Global Warming Is On The Moon!” Daryl ran over to the boy and bought a copy from him. He skimmed through it, seeing what the critics had to say about it THIS time. Surprisingly, they didn't say anything, even though yesterday the headline was “No Global Warming.” Then he saw why. On page 17, there was an article by Professor Robert Tianga that gave evidence about global warming that NOBODY could dispute.

Although Professor Tianga was a renowned world scientist, Daryl could remember a time when everyone thought he was crazy. He later proved his genius when he created the first colony on Mars, in March 2036. The colony has expanded since then and now has almost as many people on it as on Earth. He also revolutionized space flight with an attachment to the ISS that allowed them to go within 100km of the sun's surface.

Now that he started reading it, Daryl could remember when he was at the University Of Western Ontario being taught about global warming. He himself did what he could to stop it, but it still happened. It eventually created a hot wasteland at the North and South Poles, killing almost all penguins and polar bears on the Earth. The only survivors of the flood that followed were in upper areas of the Earth, and they managed to rebuild. Now almost everyone lived on the moon or on Mars.

After awhile, humans yet again got greedy, and one group tried to take over the moon. They polluted the moon by using old tanks and half tracks that used diesel fuel, instead of newer alternative fuels, and started the process of global warming on the moon. These men eventually found out what they were doing to the moon, and destroyed their diesel and gas using weapons, but still took over using the rest of their weapons.

After the moon was under one control, the government set up worked to undo the damage they did while they were taking over the moon. Over time, the pollution started going down, but now it was apparently going up again. Daryl just couldn't stand it when idiots had to destroy good things. It almost happened on the moon, almost happened on Mars, and did happen to the Earth.

Most of the animals from Earth had survived, although a few more species had become extinct. Scientists had sent unmanned submarines down below the swollen oceans, and found many species that were thought extinct, or even entirely new species. Many giant squid had swamped one submarine and destroyed it completely, but not before it sent off a message saying that “23 giant squid (Architeuthis dux) are attacking this vessel.”

After that they stopped sending submarines, and instead started sending supplies to the people still living on the planet. On Mars they had found an underground pool of water before colonization, just proving old scientists right about how there used to be water on Mars. They later found even more water on Mars, all of it below the surface. They also found some very radioactive areas, like there had been a nuclear war and the planet was wiped nearly clean.

“If only humans had been able to travel to the stars in the time of the ancient Greeks, then we might have saved the Marsians.” Daryl wondered aloud.

“What was that sir?” asked the paper boy.

“Nothing, nothing, but just some advice. Go live your life, but don't damage or destroy anything unless you have to.” replied Daryl as he walked away.

Daryl now thought about how the entire human race was spread out between 2 planets and a moon, and how it now had supplies needed for doing nearly anything it wished. They didn't have to pollute, destory or damage anything ever again. But sometime in the future, there will be someone who will be greedy, and destroy the work of generations all for money or power...

Bibliography

Wikipedia (information on giant squid)
An Inconvenient Truth – Al Gore (projected global warmth changes)

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