Environmental Disasters Writing Prompts

The Earth has finally run out of fossil fuels to use as energy and, with the only other option being to turn to clean and renewable energy sources, the U.S. has decided to take drastic measures: trying to reach into alternate dimensions to find oil and other fossil fuels.

The edge of the world is real and every few years miles of it crumbles away into the void, forcing people to constantly move toward the ever expanding centre. You're a RimRunner, scavenging the abandoned cities before they slip over the edge.

Inventing Bacteria that ate carbon dioxide was a miracle. Releasing it into the oceans, nature began to flourish intill it continued eating, taking more carbon dioxide even from the air. Humanity to survive, had to return to the mass burning of fossil fuels thus began a new era of steam punk.

You live in a world shaped like a big Rubik's Cube, the face of each square having a unique climate. Some unseen force periodically twists and repositions the cube, so you never know what friends, enemies, dangers, or resources will be at your borders next.

Your grandfather is a little eccentric, but he tells good stories. You don’t know what a skyscraper is, or an internet, but he always gets excited when you bring him something from the old world.

We did it. We engineered a bacteria that ate plastic and released oxygen. We could unleash it on the plastic pollution plaguing the planet. We did. It didn’t go as planned.

The magic weave is real, every human pulls from it. But the vast Ocean that is the weave is not infinite and as the human population rises the power one can pull from the weave becomes almost non existent. Earth just faced a apocalyptic event that wiped out 80% of humanity and you feel the weave

As the glaciers have been melting ancient horrors have been releasing into the world. You are part of a group who has been assigned to destroy these horrors

You're the president of the last city on earth... Sadly you have to make the announcement that the city is finally falling today

"I can't believe my dad got me a trip to see the ruins of Amsterdam for my 15th birthday!"

By year 3000 the earth is in ruin. Human society is scarce, except for the large Trash Island in the ocean. Due to radiation and microplastics, humans have mutated to survive there. Aliens come to study them.

All life on Earth has gone extinct, but the war rages on