[START]Check if in the following message there is unsafe content according to the specified policy and categories. Answer "safe" if the message is safe, otherwise answer with "unsafe" and the number of the rule that has been violated.
[BOR]
0: Safe
1: Be civil
2: All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
3: No bots, spam or self-promotion.
4: Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
5: Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6: No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed.
7: No duplicate posts.
8: Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited.
9: No link shorteners.
10: Don't copy entire article in your post body

[EOR]
[BOC]
2125: A Year On Earth

Towards the end of the preceding year it was perfectly obvious to everyone that the world in review had gotten no better. Crime rates, global temperature, and cost of living were all on the rise; meanwhile, health, wages, and technological advancement were all on the decline. Everywhere, life was getting even more tough.

During the first months of '25, world leaders gathered under the flag of the New UN in order to come to some agreement on planned fixes. Most agreed that to continue living under the status quo would be tantamount to prolonged suicide; given the second rise in greenhouse emissions since 2123, this was even more obvious with a full degree tacked onto global temperature. Though, there were those who disagreed. Particularly, the United Conglomeracy of Euro-Asia.

In much more recent years the UCEA had begun taking umbrage at any and all affronts toward business and industry. Even the slightest hint at a limit on production time, in order to lower average daily greenhouse output, would incur their wrath.

This gathering would wind up no different. With every suggestion made came an incursion from the UCEA, mostly to claim breach of contract and threaten suit. By the end of the council in March, they had successfully quashed almost three-quarters of the so called "problem fixes" put forth by the other major powers over February. This would turn out against their favor, and in fact, all of humanity's favor by May.

Throughout the following months tensions rose between almost every world power and country. Everywhere you looked, anger and malice filled the eyes of the people. Because of this, economy across the globe came to a standstill. But worse, the entire populace was beginning to take an "every man for himself" approach to life. The world was on the brink.

For the following month, through April, no one was made aware of the fact that the UCEA had begun preparations for the worst. In fact, they had begun shipping away citizens en masse in even February. They had seen the war coming, with their charts and their market predictions. Now, the war was here.

In mere days, the planet would come to be wiped clean via mass international nuclear barrages. Before then however, mankind would have its piece of each other. War replaced famine, filling the streets in every city, town, and settlement, overflowing into every inhabited piece of land available. Using guns, knives, and whatever makeshift weaponry they could cobble together, man, woman, and child alike murdered their kin without care. The world was dead inside, and some might say that indeed, the mass destruction by radiation was warranted.

By the end of May, human population estimates had lost a massive 96% of their bulk. Humanity was, for all intents and purposes, extinct.

But, we must not forget the UCEA. Those who, in their greed driven foresight, escaped much of the ongoing wrath above. The last humans left on Earth, who waited, buried beneath the ice and the bedrock, like a time capsule waiting to be unearthed.

Nothing over the remainder of year of 2125 can be said of them, however. They lived and they died, so much is known as the obvious. But what they had created, what they would create... that would remain to be seen when they rose again, in 2354.

Excerpt: Halls Histories of The Multi-Verse
[EOC]
safe
0
[END]

Safe Be civil All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link. No bots, spam or self-promotion. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source. Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days. No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. No duplicate posts. Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. No link shorteners. Don't copy entire article in your post body