The Great Global Trash Fire

A history lesson from the year 2080

Cee R.
Aug 22, 2022
Kawaii dumpster fire floating in flooded waters. A road sign read ‘what is even happening?’
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A conversation observed while time-travelling, setting: a classroom in 2080…

Future Teacher:

The end of the 2010s, and beginning of the 2020s, is known to history, and in fact to people at the time, as The Great Global Trash Fire

Little Jimmy:

Is that because of Global Warming and the wildfires that ocurred in many countries across the globe?

Future Teacher:

…That too.

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Cee R.

Writer, poet, (book) blogger @ dorareads.co.uk , Queer, weird, & a tad peculiar. Bookish rebel. Welsh as a tractor on the M4. Buy me a coffee @ ko-fi.com/ceearr