Fiza Arshad

By Fiza Arshad*

Just imagine, it’s the year 3025. Everyone in the world that is living right now is dead – from your great grandparents (if you are lucky to have had them) to grandparents, parents, siblings, aunts, and uncles. You name it.

And there is no fresh water to be found anywhere. The air is polluted. Oil reserves are no more. We have also run out of Earth’s natural resources – gold, silver, cobalt, metal. Anything being made is done so using recycled products (something that North America has a scarcity of because our governments sent everything to Southeast and East Asia). So, the Phillipines, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, and Pakistan are rich in recycled reserves. They have more re-usable and treatable water.

The USA and Canada, as well as much of Europe, used their resources to power generative AI. Now, they are relying on Saudi Arabia’s solar powered Humain to do basic jobs. After their oil reserves dried up, Saudia partnered with USA and Humain to find a way to export solar powered energy and AI.

Meanwhile, the rest of the people in the western world now look up to Africa and Asia for their educational institutions, corporate industries, and leisure. The air in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Mali and Guinea is not polluted. Thanks to Ibrahim Traoré, western-backed, supposedly-Muslim insurgency was solved in 2025. The USA, Canada, and European countries had too much on their plates. While backing Israel’s plan to conquer their “promised land” and fighting Russia’s land grab, they could not keep equivalent tabs on both the Middle East and African countries. In their bid to booby trap the Middle East, they polluted their environment, failed to hone natural “human” talent, and inadvertently, helped Southeast Asia and Africa become global, cosmopolitan hubs.

The people here in North America are not able to meet ends. Most can’t read beyond grade 8 and survive on tik toks, instagram reels, snaps, and the Kardashians. Talent is imported – more than ever. And, talent is honoured. With the rising decline of Caucasian countries, people who choose to work in these developing countries are paid well and make much of the decisions in how a country is supposed to be run to serve international interests (in Southeast Asia and Africa).

The Middle East has returned to being a desert for nomads and bedouins. Every night the eldest of each tribe sits around the fire to narrate stories of war, power hunger, and loss that could have been stopped with courage, compassion, and kindness.

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* I wrote this post with no help from generative AI for ideation, content creation, or editing. Excuse any typos, or, point them out in the comments below and I will fix it.

* Feature image taken from Flickr. Created by Simon Berger (https://www.flickr.com/photos/simon_berger/).