It has been pointed out to me that my ‘Story in
Haiku’ blog on Sunday was posting number 2400 on this Rory/blogsphere journey.
By way of celebration/commemoration/commiseration
here are some things I think will be true about Planet Earth in the year 2400
AD.
The only fresh water left that is safe to drink will
be housed in large goldfish bowls on the outskirts of each city.
The most popular sport will be a version of Polo in
which intelligent marmosets ride genetically engineered super-camels.
The only bit of rainforest left will be a
postcard-sized bit of soil in the International Museum of Extinction.
Food will be a thing of the past – humans will exist
on “Elon Musk’s Vitamin-laced Nostalgic Chewable Air”
Oil companies will be selling oil extracted from the
insides of old engines that used to run on oil when we still had some in the
ground.
Going into space will be as common as getting on a
bus was in the 1950s.
The average American will weigh 4.2 tonnes.
So much pollution will be in the air, and so much
debris will be in orbit, that daylight will find it almost impossible to
penetrate the atmosphere, so sunrise and sunset in London will be 11 minutes
apart.
The UK parliament will still be trying to sort out
BREXIT.
RC 4-10-19
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