2032

[Chuck Grimes]

The destruction of 70% of the natural world in 30 years, mass extinction
of species, and the collapse of human society in many countries is
forecast in a bleak report by 1,100 scientists published yesterday....

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Geeze Ian,

you sure know how to put up good cheer. So maybe I shouldn't quit
smoking and then I won't have to look out through the heavy wire
screened glass at the smoldering city ruins, teeming with homeless
clones scrapping the night's dead off the asphalt for breakfast in the
first dull orange light from the blood red sun as it rises through the
brown haze over the barren hills in the east.

Yours in the great afterglow,

Chuck Grimes