[ WP ] It has been 30 years since The Fog covered the planet .

`` Blood red, the deep blue of the ocean, the vivid yellow of saffron, the silken green of a tree frog'' Professor Derqus pointed at the presentation with his point-tek finger attachment and looked out at the audience of students. `` These are the colours we can no longer perceive'out there', these are some of the things that do n't exist anymore in our ecosystem. Instead, we must view representations of such vibrancy on screens, or photographs, lit artificially beneath the earth.'' 
 
 A murmur broke through the lecture hall, before a female student raised her hand. 
 
 `` Yes?'' Professor Derqus asked. 
 
 `` We hear this all the time, about how The Fog has changed the planet so much and how colours used to exist that we can no longer perceive'out there'. But is this really the case? How can we know, if we were n't there ourselves?'' The student asked. 
 
 Professor Derqus nodded slowly and looked down at his desk of notes before glancing back upwards. 
 
 `` Things were different back then. People believed that you could just reap as many finite resources from the earth as they pleased, because it strengthened economies.. governments would n't listen to the scientists when they predicted the ice caps would melt, and now we've lost Northern Europe, of course. But'the fog'? No one could've possibly even dreamt of the horror we've brought on ourselves. All we can do is look back, or see the world as it was onscreen. We'll never be able to get back what has been lost. We never knew we'd turn our world monochromatic.''
