Ticking Time Bomb

Our world is a ticking time bomb, the date of detonation drawing closer with every stupid thing humans do. Scientists sit; spinning theories and running endless calculations about specific milestones marking the dates that our world will get closer to dying. The day scientists predict we will run out of oil isn’t far off in our future, but I bet a large percentage of our generation didn’t know that. The words endlessly streaming out of the mouths of scientists and politicians are unbeknownst to many of us, the scarring truth not happy enough to penetrate our safe havens of ignorance. We blindly rely on the so-called responsible adults of our world to resolve all the issues we have, their sugar coated promises that everything is going to be okay are slivers of naive hope that we cling to trustingly without a second thought. But what if the scientists, politicians, presidents, the leaders, what if they decide that they’re done? All the work they’ve done trying to stop climate change and fix past human errors, what if they decide it’s pointless to try and correct lifetimes of problems when they won’t be around for the consequences? What if they realize that they won’t be here to see everything go up in flames, so why try to save something destined for destruction, condemned to death from the moment it was touched by human life? Maybe they’ll become as selfish as we all are, stop worrying about the rest of us because they don’t have to. Maybe that will finally be the wake-up call, because apparently melting glaciers, species going extinct, and the looming threat of entire countries going underwater isn’t enough. We can’t sit in our safe bubbles waiting for Prince Charming to rescue us, we have to BE Prince Charming and save ourselves. The world is a selfishplace, and when people realize it, we will know that once the apocalypse begins, once the world begins to collapse, its foundations crumbling from within, once the scientists, politicians, and so-called “saviors” give up on our dying earth, it’ll be everyone fo themselve,s and we will realize that there is truly no one to save us now.