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Flowers are blooming at an incredible place across the city and sometimes barren patches of grass can be overrun with flowers overnight. There have been heavy showers and a high pollen count but there doesn’t appear to be any other explanation. It is not uncommon to find trees with nearly double the leaves they usually have, with vines twisting up houses, flowers covering the front yard, or local fruits to have doubled in size. There doesn’t seem to be any negative effects to this; scientists are questioning climate change.
Sachio was happy about all of the flowers blooming throughout the city, though it did concern him a bit. After all, it was summer, and unless these were all tropical flowers, he was surprised that most of them had started to bloom. He had expected more of them to bloom in the spring and continue to stay flowered until Fall when the weather started to get a bit cooler. Of course, the latter never seemed to be guaranteed at this point with Global Warming and all of that fun stuff. He even started to wonder if they would see less and less of winter eventually. What type of climate would this area turn into once the effects of Global Climate Change really started to appear? Would it become a desert? A jungle? Whatever it would become, he knew it would be irreversible.
Another reason he should get started on working on his comet. Humans didn’t seem to be wanting to do anything to help the planet at this point, so he might as well make it inhabitable, even if that meant he would be alone forever if he started to live their permanently.
He shook his head. Honestly, he sounded depressed, and it was summer! He should be enjoying the warmth and the sunlight! But with all that had happened so far, he wasn’t sure what to think of it. It seemed… unusual. Even for climate change. He was sure something like this had happened before, but didn’t it usually happen closer to December? Strange events that couldn’t be explained, even by science?
And it wasn’t only the flowers that concerned him. It wasn’t even the pollen that seemed to create a yellow mist around the city and that he was having to take allergy medicine for the first time in his life. It was the fact that even the trees seemed to have more leaves and vines were coming from nowhere. As though there was something in the air that was fertilizing these things and they weren’t close to stopping. Or else it was that stupid Troll from Central Park and it was real and causing everything to be overgrown with plants like in the end of that movie. He really, really hoped it wasn’t the troll, because he would be making sure it was dead.
Still, it gave him opportunities to take pictures and get some ideas for his miniature Zen gardens. He had thought about doing a climate change series for a while, and with it going into the next decade what better time to do it? The overgrown fruits and the vines wrapping around everything was quite inspiring, even if it was a little concerning.
He didn’t have much of a chance to relax outside though, the heat was still there and while the plants seemed to be absorbing a lot of the humidity, it was too much, even for him. He would have to go inside and start to study again soon. But… it was interesting to see everything like this, and he wondered if it was something “natural” or if there was another reason behind all of this…
