The end of the world

When all humans are extinct, what happens next

It’s the year 2071, downtown in New York city, an alarm clock rings loudly awakening a tired Dr Amelia sherwood, who’s running late for work as she’s been up all night pondering on the daunting thought of what needs to be addressed in this important work meeting. Flicking through her notes, she wonders if she’ll do her points justice and if anyone will take her announcement seriously. Amelia scurries down the street, polluted by taxi cabs and smoke from corporate factories. Once she arrives at the NASA office, she takes her seat in the boarding room right away. A panel of supreme people are impatiently waiting to hear her hopefully inferential presentation. As she stands by the lectern, sweat trickling down her forehead, Amelia opens her mouth, projects her voice and desperately elucidates how the end of the world could be near if we don’t act now. The room fills with laughter by usually serious men, chortling away checking their expensive watches, they fire Amelia on the spot as her frank ideologies do not align with their profit projections.

As she walks home in despair, a blasting orange eruption catches her eye from a TV screen in a shop window. People crowd round to watch the news as Amelia stands back and thinks, her frightening ideas are now becoming reality. She tried to warn people but they didn’t listen. The once dormant volcano was triggered by the heating of the atmosphere, because humans lived upon this Earth, they have caused their own fate. The power of this eruption activated an earthquake which was off the Richter scale, the whole of the Earth shook and the temperature rose vastly. Humans, left frozen in shock, had no time to think about their next move, living in this atrocious state. Cities near the volcano were destroyed by flying rocks of lava. Windows were shattered, people were crushed and the Earth filled with panic as the sky turned black. Since trees were wiped out , there is limited photosynthesis meaning oxygen levels lead low. Any surviving humans struggle to catch their breath. The shield surrounding Earth was no longer protective, allowing burning large asteroids in, further adding to the damage. The asteroid smashed right into the middle of Earth, causing a ripple in waves of dark energy. Like a domino series of unfortunate events, the asteroids sparked a tsunami flooding plains. Life as we knew it had been taken away in a matter of moments, Earth as we once knew so well, now unrecognizable and unable to ever be repeated again. The chances of rebuilding our beautiful Earth stand non existent.