Last Moments on Earth

A Story by Kelsey

The earth is slowly dying, the plants and trees are nearly extinct, water and oxygen have become a rare resource to find and with each day, we are heading closer and closer to the sun, to the end of humanity. However, before the whole earth was completely affected by this destructive heatwave, a group of intellectual scientists realised what damage could come from the sun’s rays and began creating artificial gravity to stop the earth rotation. However, when testing, there was an unexpected power surge forcing the earth to become tidal locked to the sun causing humanity to die quicker as oceans all over the world rapidly began to rise resulting in mass panic and destruction. Multiple tsunamis began wiping out countries all over the world, killing billions of people in a matter of minutes, it is a miracle that some people even survived. A week passed and all the water on the land was evaporated, leaving little water left in the Indian and Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic, Pacific and the Southern Ocean, however, were completely frozen over. Nearly the whole population died by the artificial gravity, only 400,000 people survived; the rich, the government and people who made it to higher ground in time. To prevent overpopulation on the dark side of the earth, the government took action and put a continuous border all around the world dividing the light and the dark, there was the access point for crossing the border but there was a high-cost fee. Majority of the rich would stay on the dark side and help fund the underground living such as helping create hydroponics which would allow plants and food to grow without sunlight and soil. The dark side had unlimited amounts of water as they could easily melt the frozen oceans but, they could not build on the surface therefore, citizens would help with the construction underground making it stable and secure enough to live under. The bright side, however, was near enough impossible to live on. Food would not grow because the ground was all dried up, water was becoming difficult to access, there was a lack of oxygen due to all the plants being scorched by the sun and it is impossible to be outside for more than two hours without dying of sunstroke. A small handful of the rich however, would cross the border three times a week and give the residents rations and currency, which was water or valuable materials, so they could survive longer. Some people refused to accept the kind gesture of the rich because they did not want to become dependent on them. They also believed that the rich would stop crossing the border one day and make everyone fight for resources just for their source of entertainment. One day soon enough, the earth will explode because the sun will eventually heat up the earth’s core causing volcanoes to erupt and the earth to split. Our only chance of survival now is to move planets and start again.