50 Years From Now

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It started when we ran out of land in The City. There used to be lots of old buildings to tear down, but eventually everything was new. Modern malls, glistening condos and layers of roads. Things which produced no tangible profit like parks, libraries and museums were quickly replaced. Walls and windows divided us, but nobody objected as it protected us from the rising temperatures.

I really don't know when it happened, but eventually the last tree died. The ones in the malls had long ago been replaced with artificial molded plastic versions; rising water costs made caring for trees a luxury that they didn't want to afford. Some of the newspapers tried to report on the trees while they were dying, but nobody was interested. Society scandals and sales from last month's fashions filled the bulk of the paper; few people took the time to read the items buried in the back.

There are signs that things might get better. Just as neglected trees died away when nobody was looking, neglected people have started to die away. More and more people have been sitting down in front of their TV and refusing to move. Death comes quickly to those who have lost the will to live. Their fancy new buildings, made of cheap materials, soon fall into disrepair and through the cracks real trees actually start to grow again.