Catastrophic

Everyone thought it was a joke when the president announced, that we as a planet had exhausted all of the fossil fuels. We all made jokes and laughed at the thought of our nation coming down.

But what none of us had expected, was the attack that came the following year.
Korea sent two nukes straight for D.C.
It arrived under the cover of night...it went unnoticed as every one was pulled together to search for recourses that might have been missed. Back then there was hope, that maybe by digging a little bit deeper we would find an abundance of fossil fuels just below the surface.

The shock waves that followed the first bomb stretched all the way down to South America and destroyed everything it touched.
The second bomb melted and wore every building closest to it. Many places remained untouched....that was until the first signs of how the nukes affected the atmosphere started to show.

But 50 years later the remainder of the population gave birth to the next generation. Those who would inherit the earth....they gave birth to my generation.