Prologue to The Times of Clouds and Sun
I started re-reading my Nano Novel and felt like this intro turned out pretty well, so...here it is.
The Times of Clouds and Sun, the times of clouds and sun…well, it sure felt like it back then. We had a plan, we had an objective, and we had the will.
We knew the earth was overcrowded, and that we were steadily destroying our planet through the thoughtless actions of humanity.
And it was only getting worse the more people being born.
The home Planet was just getting smaller and smaller, but the worst part of it was necessarily the number of people…it was the type of people.
Just so many poor folks…undesirables…stupid people. People who didn’t matter, and probably never would. These people were destroying things little by little and I know we were not the first group with the idea that a voluntary extinction movement would help to heal the planet…but who would be around to notice? Who would be around to reap the benefits of an unmanned (And un- woman-ed) planet earth?
The idea had been proposed in that heady decade of the early 90’s when a group was formed by average people who lived by the simple tenet that if all of humanity just up and decided to stop reproducing, we could bring about a natural dying out of our species and that would help the planet. Without our carbon footprint and our pollution and our wars and frankly, our stupidity, the planet would be a lot better off.
Of course, it was a stupid idea. It is in the human DNA to want to reproduce, or at the very least to do the action that leads to that eventuality….
Boring. They would never get anywhere in their passive aims to bring about change. Passive change. No change ever comes about this way. But we had to give them credit. At least they were thinking. Give them the A for effort but an F in execution.
But our goal…well, we wanted to maybe take it all a step further.
The times of clouds and sun…that was our code for the project that was to supersede the work done in the early 90’s. For what we were aiming for was truly a time for clouds and sun, though it can be argued that virtually every day could be described this way, and it did lead to some unfortunate in-fighting that frankly, I don’t feel like getting into.
Because this really isn’t our story, as much as I’d like it to be. But what it is, is a story that begins in the near future at something that was to be called the Post Trump America. Trump was an American President who divided the nation and made our work possible. Not by any direct action. Like a lot of things during that era, it all started with the Russians…
No…our story is the story of a man who lived during those times, a man called Baxter. And like a lot of people, he was just a man trying to do his job and get out. But it would lead him on a path that would influence the future world and the path of the planet toward the times of clouds and sun….
The Times of Clouds and Sun, the times of clouds and sun…well, it sure felt like it back then. We had a plan, we had an objective, and we had the will.
We knew the earth was overcrowded, and that we were steadily destroying our planet through the thoughtless actions of humanity.
And it was only getting worse the more people being born.
The home Planet was just getting smaller and smaller, but the worst part of it was necessarily the number of people…it was the type of people.
Just so many poor folks…undesirables…stupid people. People who didn’t matter, and probably never would. These people were destroying things little by little and I know we were not the first group with the idea that a voluntary extinction movement would help to heal the planet…but who would be around to notice? Who would be around to reap the benefits of an unmanned (And un- woman-ed) planet earth?
The idea had been proposed in that heady decade of the early 90’s when a group was formed by average people who lived by the simple tenet that if all of humanity just up and decided to stop reproducing, we could bring about a natural dying out of our species and that would help the planet. Without our carbon footprint and our pollution and our wars and frankly, our stupidity, the planet would be a lot better off.
Of course, it was a stupid idea. It is in the human DNA to want to reproduce, or at the very least to do the action that leads to that eventuality….
Boring. They would never get anywhere in their passive aims to bring about change. Passive change. No change ever comes about this way. But we had to give them credit. At least they were thinking. Give them the A for effort but an F in execution.
But our goal…well, we wanted to maybe take it all a step further.
The times of clouds and sun…that was our code for the project that was to supersede the work done in the early 90’s. For what we were aiming for was truly a time for clouds and sun, though it can be argued that virtually every day could be described this way, and it did lead to some unfortunate in-fighting that frankly, I don’t feel like getting into.
Because this really isn’t our story, as much as I’d like it to be. But what it is, is a story that begins in the near future at something that was to be called the Post Trump America. Trump was an American President who divided the nation and made our work possible. Not by any direct action. Like a lot of things during that era, it all started with the Russians…
No…our story is the story of a man who lived during those times, a man called Baxter. And like a lot of people, he was just a man trying to do his job and get out. But it would lead him on a path that would influence the future world and the path of the planet toward the times of clouds and sun….
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