Steve’s Barking; Short Fiction story of the end of the world (That’s all folks)

 That’s all Folks

      By Stephen Werner

 We tried

 We failed

 The world is coming to an end.

 We thought that sucking the CO 2 out of the air was all we needed to do. Oh well flooding got worse, and the heat became unbearable. We of cause blamed each other.

Of cause the zillionaires and the lesser of the super rich the trillionaires,thought they could spend their way out of the end of the world. Ha,  Joe Baloney thought his minions could colonize Mars. He stole every idea that the Russian, Chines, and America had to offer, put it on several rocket ships only to find out that his engineers forgot to calibrate the rotation of the earth around the sun and the rotation of Mars around the Sun. When they took off the rockets kept going and going never to return to any planet to land and of this writing no one knows were the hell in space they are. Another of these Uber rich dudes thought he could colonize the moon. I for the life of me couldn’t figure out why the moon would be any better then just living the rest of his shortened life on Earth, but no one knows whether life on the moon would be any good, for some strange reasons the rocket that was carrying him and all that he believed was needed to have him survive on the moon blew up. Maybe it was sabotage by the worker who helped build the rocket. And then there was zillionaire Moe Fine who thought he could beat the end of the world scenario by storing water and other liquids in along with food supplies that would last a thousand years in an underground bunker. He was positive that the bunker was water proof. It was, only he didn’t count on shoddy construction and the bunker collapsed with him and what he thought would be his survivors.

 Now one would think that the world leaders who had all the knowledge and the ability to build what ever was needed to escape the end of the earth, but of cause they couldn’t agree on which course to take and then it became too late and they were stuck here on this doomed planet just like the rest of us peons.

 Now we all know that we are going to die, especially when food supplies started dwindling, and electricity became scarce. Who could of figure that too much wind would destroy the wind turbines and rip solar panels from their moorings. The heat became too much for the electric grids making even the existing fossil fuel and nuclear  power useless.

 Now you would think that lawlessness would skyrocket, and it did in the very beginning when it became known that the end of the human race was in sight, but the rioting were stores were broken into and computers, televisions and smart that were stollen were actually useless as electricity started to shut down so no one wanted to steal those items because they were useless.Stealing gems and clothing seemed like fun but in a short period of time the trill of having those items was gone. 

 You would think that rapes and assaults would become out of hand, but just the opposite happened. Perhaps the heat tired all the would be rapist and assailants out. The part of the world that was cold it was too cold to do anything.

 I thought that most of us when we confronted with the end would commit suicide, but I was wrong, we were all dying from global change, either from starvation,  heat frying us or cold freezing us to death.

 As I look at my wife ,children and dog I see that I’m the only one left of my family and soon I’ll be gone.  I’m writing this the old fashioned way pen and paper in case there is any humanity that survived and in a thousand years they will know the conditions of climate change.