[ WP ] A second Ice Age has ravaged the Earth in the year 2039 . While scavenging , you realize that the Ice Age was artificially started , and you think you know why .

Billions of humans died since it all began. The aftermath of the ice age on the planet as a whole was unimaginable to most. Desolate and empty. You would be lucky to see any animals around and luckier still if you manage to see any plant life still somehow surviving. I miss the birds the most. I used to love sitting there and watching them with my father. I miss him a lot. He taught me how to survive though and it's for him that I continue through each day. 
 
 I was 9 when it all began. I remember being packed into the car along with all of the other things my father said we needed. He drove us as far away from other people as he could. He told me no one could be trusted anymore. That we had to rely on ourselves. We ended up out in a remote part of the country near the mountains north of the capital city but far enough away that we never encountered anyone. I assumed most people had perished in the years that followed. Over the years we managed and things went well. He had managed to acquire enough food to last us many years during his frequent back and forth trips to the surrounding areas of the city. He never would tell me if he had met other people there but I think it was to keep me from being scared for he came back with blood on him on more than one occasion. This went on for many years with me finally being taken along and taught how he scavenged for us. The day I met other people for the first time since it all began was the saddest day of my life. I did at the very least acquire food to last me at least two months alone though I did n't feel like eating much. 
 
 As time went by it became harder and harder to find supplies. I knew it meant I had to move but I had been avoiding it. I finally ended up in the Capital City and what I found shocked me. A military complex was still running. So many people alive and well. I know my father told me to trust no one but they had warmth shelter and food. I had to know if this was a shelter for all. 
 
 I let myself be seen and after lots of questioning from their superiors they agreed to let me join them on the condition that I continued scavenging for them. More time passed and I was one of their head runners. Usually I found more supplies then anyone else. I had a keen knack for it. Though I also snuck off on my own a lot to find new books to read. I learned a lot about our planet, the political issues that occurred involving our environment and so on. I loved learning about the environment prior to this icy world. It was something worth imagining. Though I did enjoy a good horror story when I found one and always has eyes out for them as well. Eventually I came across an abandoned military base south of the city. I assumed it had been checked for food but I went in looking for reading materials. You really never could get enough. It was here that I learned that truly no one could be trusted. Printed documents files hidden away describing in detail plans on how to artificially create the very thing that killed life on this planet as I knew it. 
 
 I spent months keeping this to myself contemplating why anyone would ever do this to the world. I read many more books, magazines, articles, and pretty much anything else I could find trying to learn more about what had been happening the years prior to when it all began. I finally came to the conclusion the world was on a downward spiral. As a race we had grown to fast and were about to make the planet uninhabitable altogether between overpopulation and many other means all happening at the same time. I think they did this because humans have survived this sort of thing in the past. They could control and plan for this at least for a decent amount of the population. This was the safe option. At least this is what I told myself to justify it. I will never know for sure what the reasons were and I have no plans on telling anyone about what I found. I just plan on surviving just like my father taught me to. As well as teaching his grandson how to live in a world as cold as this one.
