The Planet Dies

By Matthew Beckett

A series of short stories showing what could happen if we do not start addressing climate change, albeit a rather dramatic license taking one.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Matthew Beckett
• Release date: Jul 19, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386588825

Matthew Beckett

Matthew Beckett has been a story teller since before he could write.  His Traumatic Brain Injury at age eight and subsequent inability to secure private health insurance until this January has given him a particular passion for this topic.

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THE PLANET DIES, BY MATT THE STORM LUCAS BECKETT

Author's note: What follows are a series of short stories showing extreme examples of what could happen if we continue to ignore Climate Change.  While these are all intended as extreme exagerations, I thought the same was true of some of what Republicans did in some of my earlier short story collections, and if anything it turned I guessed less than what they actually did, so maybe we should work harder to stop them this time, and do it.  And now, without further ado . . .

THE PLANET DIES.

'RECYCLE THIS!'

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BY MATT (THE STORM) LUCAS BECKETT

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And with that, said the one time minority leader of The United States Senate, Joann Buymoney declared.  This company, Eat, Drink, and Throw It Away is opened.

There went up a resounding cheer from all of her supporters and employees.  Try and recycle this! said one, draining the can  of Caffine  Plus and then demonstrating how the angled hole made it impossible to rinse the can out, thus making it impossible to recycle.

And the food particles on the  inside of this frozen dinner box, now that there is no film cover separating the food in the tray from the inside of the box make it impossible to recycle it either, said a young, former page excitedly.  Yes, those tree hugging liberals can cry and moan all they want about 'our poor planet', but now that's all they can do.

Plus, once companies master the process, it is actually cheaper to make products this way than the old, 'recyclable' way anyway, finished Joan.

The products began to find their way to shelves about a week later.  They flew off the shelves almost faster than Eat, Drink and Throw It Away could put them out, for they were very cheap. 

I fought those Tree Huggers for years in Congress, Joan observed a month and a half after her company launched, and an invitation plus $1,000 donation only party celebrating the same.  "And never achieved