“Wave your
hands in the air like you just don't care!”
Billy the
Kid* #quote
Today I asked
the man on the ceiling if he'd knew where my time machine went. He
mumbled back to me, “Tomato.” Anyway onto the flash fiction!
The Lukewarm
Age
In the future
another like the one that caused the Ice Age hits the Earth. However
it does not cause another Ice Age. It causes the Lukewarm Age. The
entire planet became one environmental meh. The large general
alteration caused many lifeforms to die out, as any massive change
can cause large amounts of death, including to humanity. But also
humanity adapted instead of just living by conviently being a race
that thrived in a lukewarm climate. Weather never hit perfect, but
was always acceptable and never became extremely unpleasant, and the
seasons were never drastic. Once adjustment hit crops were steady and
eventually boomed. That was besides humanity's intense desire to farm
at incredible strength.
When the planet
became meh, it became the
most universally palatable. Without seasonal change to slow down
humans farmers made things as they pleased. Children never quite knew
the beautiful wonders of spring, but neither did winter attack them.
Only the most extreme northern parts got snow. But starvation reduced
as even in poorer countries farming became easier as there was no
need to fight through the rough winters of old. After all the deaths
of people trying to find out what grew in the Lukewarm Age.
Archeologists
look back at the Lukewarm age and see that most species of the planet
died in mass extinction and humanity lost half its population. Then a
massive boom occurred as everyone adapted advantage of an average
climate that hardly changed. Humanity tripled from its original size.
The archeologists then wondered what it would be like to never be
able to see spring or a day with a wonderfully cool breeze.
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