Global Gazette November 10, 2100

Global Gazette
Beckett Navarrette / Global Gazette / 10 November 2100, 9:00 AM

Catastrophe in 2100 and the Worlds Solution

The fate of human civilization hangs import-dependent countries. Algeria and
in the balance as natural disaster continues Egypt fell under the sway of Russias wheat
to damage our agricultural system. Two and diplomacy, being threatened with embargo if
a half centuries of ignoring climate change they don't capitulate to Russias satellite
has finally caught up with the world, state demands. Most of the third world
spelling disaster for all. became proxy states to Russia and their
The first signs of disaster were wheat export monopoly. Russias increasing
evident in the spring of 2100, when expected presence seemed unstoppable until the
rainfall failed to appear, sending some of the beginning of August last month, when
largest wheat producing regions in the world melting permafrost in Siberia unleashed a
into an unexpected drought. Crops held up terror unseen by humanity for over a
fairly well until the annually record breaking century.
temperatures of summer arrived, with
lightning storms igniting parched crops all
across the world. The United States,
European Union, Australia, and China were
all hit hard, with crop fires being
extinguished only to be relit by another
lightning strike. The counties affected
suffered major economic blows, but for the
most part were able to feed their own
citizens. The real suffering was faced by
countries like egypt which heavily depend
on wheat imports to feed their growing
populations. Russias increasingly humid
Thawing permafrost in the arctic let
environment allowed them to avoid the
loose the first blight in nearly a century,
drought and continue supplying
sweeping across the Siberian wheat fields,
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killing the grain and poisoning any livestock
that ate it. On August 10th, the Government
of Russia issued a statement pertaining to
the blight, To any farmer whose crops are
infected with the disease: burn your crop or
face possible jail time. This attempt to limit
the spread of the blight merely accelerated
its spread, as the rotting crops let out spores
when disturbed. Russias entire agricultural
system had cashed by the end of August and
peasants began to starve en mass with little
government help. The destruction of the last
major exporter of wheat on the earth led to
import-dependent countries being thrust into
chaos, with revolutions sparking all across
the middle east and south pacific under the
pretext that their governments are hiding
food.
The catastrophe didnt stop in Russia
however, as unknowingly infected grain was
exported to Europe and the Americas to
feed struggling livestock. The livestock that
ate the infected grain died due to
dehydration and liver damage and began to
release spores from their decomposing
bodies. These spores drifted to nearby fields
and began infecting whatever wheat was left
unburned. The FDA declared on October 5th
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that wheat grain and livestock in the United
States was no longer safe for consumption
and ordered the burning of fields and
livestock. Desertification due to empty fields
in Eurasia and the Americas led to the
formation of massive dust bowls, displacing
millions of families. All across the world,
developed countries saw their food
infrastructure collapse just as it had in
Russia, leading to drastic government
measures such food rationing and martial
law to deal with ration riots. Countries
attempted to plant artisanal crops on the
decimated fields but years of toxic pesticides
have left the fields sterile to anything but the
GMO pesticide-resistant corn. All other
strains of pesticide resistant crops were lost
in 2095 with the Great Thaw that flooded
the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, destroying
about 98% of seed diversity.
Mass starvation and anarchy led to
the death of approximately five hundred
million, almost 5% of the global population,
over five times greater than all the deaths
caused by the black plague. Martial law has
been declared in most developed countries,
with third world countries being taken over
by warlords who intercept the meager UN
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aid, and hoard it all for themselves and their

followers. Dust Bowl refugees in the United
States are turned away at major cities,
leading some to starvation and others to
pillaging smaller towns. As the world
descended into chaos, government worked
hard to find a solution and finally announced
it yesterday, November 9th
.

The EU and BRICS announced

welfare programs to fight starvation through
supply the population with nutrient pills
originally developed by the United States.
These pills named GFU, are meant to
completely replace the human diet, and rely
on chemicals and nutrients derived from
mined materials, not real food. The United
States however, has decided not to create a
GFU welfare system, but instead has
expanded their pill-providing employment
by nationalizing certain industries such as
mining, manufacturing, and chemical
research, all industries involved in the
production of GFUs. Already in the first
day, a couple million have applied in the
U.S. for government jobs, of which theres
expected to be nearly three hundred million.