Notes from the Year 3500 A.D.

''We've reached the point where even climate fiction novels -- "cli-fi" -- can't even touch the truths that now surround us, that
for all our hope and optimism that somehow we'll muddle through the global warming impact events headed our way and come up with the necessary technological fixes needed to keep the human species thriving for the foreseeable future, say, the next million years.

So what's the point of cli-fi? Point is, there's no longer any point. We're way beyond clifi now, past literary boundaries.

The truths that await the next 30 generations of humans cannot be identified yet but we can get an inkling of what lies ahead. Its' not a pretty picture. It's not dreams of sustainability, it's not green dreams of clean rivers and unpolluted oceans.

Sorry to be so doomy gloomy but we're headed to places unheard of in human history. Cannabalism -- as agriculture and fishing fail.

Mass suicides worldwide as the stench of rotting corpses goes sky high. Mass die-offs as the air becomes unbrethable and water becomes undrinkable. So what did I say at the beginning of this piece?

We've reached the point where even climate fiction novels -- "cli-fi" -- can't even touch the truths that now surround us, that
for all our hope and optimism that somehow we'll muddle through the global warming impact events headed our way and come up with the necessary technological fixes needed to keep the human species thriving for the foreseeable future, say, the next million years.''

--  Notes from the Year 3500 A.D.