The Storm is Coming

Retribution: Chapter 1 (excerpt)

…Our numbers remain the same as we add new members while old members vanish, or literally pass away. The newbies carry with them stories. They tell of innovators finding solutions but, such small scale outcomes, unable to scale-up, insignificant. Much of what is now broken, never fixable or, if fixable, will take generations. Once humanity sponged-out like chalk on a blackboard, ousted. Fossil fuels used. Glaciers melted. Natural resources mismanaged or consumed. Earth’s temperature, only two degrees higher. What harm could that cause? Earth’s population growth, only two percent. Ethnic superiority. Lawlessness. And, as always, predications of a second coming, the rapture, two-thousand five-hundred years in the making. Give or take…