Conditional Reality

Year 1: We burn wood. The smoke stings our eyes. Year 10: We burn coal. The smoke stings our eyes. Year 100: We burn oil. The smoke stings our eyes. Year 1,000: We build a stove to burn stuff in. The smoke stings the sky. Year 10,000: We dig up chunks of the earth and roast them until they melt. Smoke rises. Year 100,000: We put up tall metal and concrete tubes and snake smoke through them. The smoke flowers at the top and spreads out like petals in wind. Year 1,000,000: We burn garbage. The smoke stings our eyes.

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