The ice sheets they did shrink And the oceans now are risen The air grew thick with dust While heat became our prison Some denied the change Despite all that they saw And some strove to push things back To how they were before An ill-judged intervention A manoeuvre most unwise A future made from plastics Carbon 14 thickened skies Mankind conquered fire Or so he once had thought Till the flames advanced unchecked Consuming all they caught Long-buried liquid secrets Oozed upwards from the deep Enrobing all that met them In a final fatal sleep

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