THE LAST DAY OF EARTH - by Prachi Jha

THE LAST DAY OF EARTH

12 November, 2218                                 8pm

    

                Hello dear diary. As I had told you yesterday, today the temperature on earth would rise to such an extent that there would be no life left. I am lying on the hospital bed waiting for my death along with some of my friends.

               Yesterday only I lost my parents as they were not able to survive in such an extreme climate. Today the last part of the ozone layer will be destroyed. Two hundered years back man had realised this increase in temperature due to global warming, but then also many of them ignored it. That time man was highly dependent on resources. Today we have no resources left for us. Acid rain has grew so strong that it has destroyed almost every building of our planet. Probably, I am lying in one of the last buildings of Earth. Even the air conditioners cannot save us from this increaseing temperature. 

               Though deforestation had been banned, people continued to cut trees and as a result today I can see hundreds of people struggling for their lives and crying for their families. When I peep out of the window, I can see the ocean rising higher and higher, ready to swallow our island. And the people are doing their best to get away from the ocean to save their lives. Today they can hardly walk without machines, and when all the machines have been destroyed due to the acid rain and heat, it is really difficult for them to walk, forget about running. The acid rain is getting stronger and stronger, I dont thing this hospital would be able to bear it any more. Soon it will collapse, the rain will enter in here and all of us will be dead within a few minutes. Or the temperature will rise to such an extent that we would reach the heaven even before the rain destroys the building. Or even before it, the rising ocean will swallow all of us. However I am really lucky that some of my friends and I were one of the last people who survived till the last day of the Earth.

              If I could go 200 years back, I would like to say to the people their 'This is our present and your future. We can't change it but you can. Think before it's too late.'

GOOD BYE

Mila White, 11 years.