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Antons Malins
ESL 91
Fall, 2003
Essay Topic: Imagine that it is the year 2050. Although governments and their citizens were warned about the dangers of the greenhouse effect as early as the 1970's, they did not take the necessary steps to prevent it from worsening. As a result, global warming and ozone depletion continued unchecked. In a well-organized essay, describe what life would be like in 2050 under these conditions. What would be the state of the climate? What would the nations of the world look like? What would be the day-to-day living conditions of the people of the world?
Today is the year 2050. We are going to die.
Soon. Very soon. Humans made mistakes which changed
our world. Let me tell you what happened.
According to the National Academy
of Sciences, our planet’s surface temperature has risen by about 1 degree in
the past hundred years. The causes of it were human’s activities. People
changed chemical structure of the atmosphere which has led to a global
catastrophe. By 2003 the concentration of carbon dioxide had increased nearly
30%, methane had doubled and nitrous oxide had risen about 15%. Millions of
cars produced about 900 millions tons of carbon dioxide per year. Rays from the
Sun became too dangerous. The ozone layer couldn’t resist that huge radiation
anymore; it was too weak. From 2003 to 2020 the population of the Earth had
increased with dramatic acceleration. Our cities began to sprout up like
mushrooms grow after the rain. Thousands of new factories, gas stations and AES
(Atomic Electro Stations) were built to improve human civilization’s level.
Buildings started a competition with forests. There was not enough space for
wild life, so trees were cut down to make room for new cities. We couldn’t stop
this process.
We started to sink. The polar ice
caps have begun to melt; the level of the ocean began to rise. In 2020 humans
lost the huge part of the cities, like
Because of high radiation level
people began to become ill. Skin cancer, eye problems were just the start.
Later, we got serious problems with pregnancy. Most newborn children began to
die after the first few days. There were so many mutations around that people
were scared; they couldn’t believe that such changes are possible. New kinds of
animals were added to the Earth’s society. Horrible legions of monsters have
started their triumphant march through the world. Nature created something new,
something wrong – a small organism, bacterium. People gave a name to this
creature: G.O., which means “game over”. G.O. exists in the water and feeds on
plankton and kelp, destroying them. Maybe there was a chance to stop deadly
bacteria, but people were too busy to notice something new; they were at war.
We tried not to die, killing each other. Now it is too late. During the first 3
years after G.O. was born, almost half of the ocean’s plankton was destroyed. Death
surrounded the ocean; a stamp of inevitability was everywhere. Billions of the sea’s
residents died. Their bodies covered the Ocean’s surface with a dense coat.
This wall, made from putrid remains, between water and air upon the sun’s
influence had become hardened. Water couldn’t find the ways to reach the sky
through evaporation. The world began to dry. Flora hadn’t enough power to
resist the drying process anymore. You could no longer find green forests; sand
and marsh became a usual picture around the towns.
Now, people are trying to destroy that wall,
which prevents water from going to the atmosphere, but it is useless. It’s too
late. We have oxygen only for few more years. The Earth is refreshing itself,
soon here will begin new circle of life, but there will no place for humans in
the future. We are doomed.
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