“Yes, I’m sorry, but a lot of livestock will die. And it’s worse than that. On land, crops will fail. The food we eat will become scarce. When that happens, the social order often breaks down and—” I stopped myself there. These were kids. Why was I going this far? “How—” Abby began. I’d never seen her at a loss for words. “How long before this happens?” “Climatologists think it’ll happen within the next thirty years,” I said. Just like that, all the kids relaxed. “Thirty years?” Trang laughed. “That’s forever!” “It’s not that long…” I said. But to a bunch of twelve- and thirteen-year-olds,
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