Posted on 02/23/2024 9:24:06 PM PST by conservativeimage
Somewhere in a dystopian future, the last few human scientists find themselves in a desperate rush to grow food to survive.
In their research they discover a censored report that says the reason crops have failed world wide is because of a lack of carbon dioxide in the global atmosphere. Researching historical databases they find that governments of the past harvested CO2 from the atmosphere and stored it in locations underground in the northeast and the south.
The scientists are forced to make a decision in a panic. Do they go north or south to dig up the carbon and use it to grow a crop before the coming cold season, which will be the last winter for humanity on the planet if they fail? They choose south. They travel for days, reach the location and find only dried up fields. This is where the carbon is suppose to be stored, so they begin to dig.
After many days of scientifically solving the technical difficulties of a deep dig they finally strike pipes. With an incredible sense of relief they break open the pipes to extract the sequestered carbon dioxide. But as they do, their hope is met with disbelief and confusion. In the pipes they find absolutely nothing.
As the planting season slips from their fingers and the last hope for humanity dies they realize governments around the world never did what they said they were doing. No taxes were ever used to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. The money was spent on other things. One of the scientists then ask if they never sequestered CO2 then it must have been present all along. If that was true then why couldn’t anybody grow food?
The group, coming to terms with their demise realize that it was never about carbon at all. It was about the economy the whole time. Governments around the world had intentionally and simultaneously killed their economies with this scientific lie about carbon dioxide. It was never science. It was the economy, stupid.
Nice end, especially in an election year.
End Credits song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IltWiEsadPk
Story has already been done at least once that I can remember. 30-40 years ago. There’s a cameo of it in Fallen Angels, too.
It’s not quite “The Death of Grass” but the idea is similar.
CO2 is the anti-Brawndo!
All it needs is some Gyorgy Ligeti in the background
You’re spot on too!
That exact article is what motivated me to post this story.
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