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They said it would get warm, but they didn’t say how quickly or how relentlessly. He thought it would take decades.
He was wrong.
Trees still foliaged but most other plants withered. Same for people.
It killed the young, old, weak, and callous. The talking heads had babbled about it before TV stopped. They couldn’t justify cooling the studios when the grid struggled to air-condition hospitals. Not that the latter did much good.
He sighed and retreated from the window. Ignored his daughter’s empty bed. They were warned. By the time they deigned to listen, it was already too late.
For the Friday Fictioneers Challenge
Na'ama Yehuda 
Apocalypse always comes sooner than one thinks.
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In many ways, yes, indeed.
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Let’s hope it doesn’t happen that quickly…
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Indeed, though in some places in the world it is happening in many ways already, with rising sea levels making some islands almost uninhabitable. Still, we can do some things to slow this, or at the very least, be better prepared. Thank you for the comment!
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Dear Na’ama,
“Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone?” Timely story. I only hope it doesn’t come true.
Shalom,
Rochelle
My story’s here. 😉 https://rochellewisoff.com/2018/07/18/20-july-2018/
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So true! Though sometimes there are those who refuse to see what is there, even when it is pretty much THERE … May we never get there …
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Interesting. I wonder if it will happen like that, with the population so beaten down by heat that they don’t riot because they lack the energy? I hope not. I hope we get a grip before it’s too late.
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I think it will depend on where in the world, and what else people are grappling with and struggling with. My guess would be that in the more affluent nations, there’d be more room for protesting, while in the most vulnerable areas, people will be more acutely affected more quickly and with less recourse or options. As for getting a grip, a good place to start would be to return to sanity in the US, which is currently stripping protections against pollution, environmental hazards, restrictions on depleting resources, and the like.
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I couldn’t agree more.
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We won’t go down this way!
Nice read! 🙂
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Hopefully not!
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Good writing. You feel the hopelessness.
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Thank you. May it stay in fiction and may we never have to face it in real life …
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Gawd… what an awful thought – mostly because it feels like it’s far from impossible.
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I know … let us hope this awfulness will remain relegated to the land of flash-fiction …
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Good description of impending doom.
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Thank you! May we never live through it, nor our children or grandchildren or their children …
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Amen to that.
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A relentless journey to destruction. Well told.
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Thank you. May we never get that far into it and may saner minds prevail to find and implement ways to minimize what would otherwise be inevitable.
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