Nuclear Cities

Fire in the sky. Death and destruction on the ground. This is my world now.
Where did all the people go? Where are all the animals? Where are all the birds? We lost a lot of them because of a disastrous man made catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, back in 2010, but even then, some had gotten away from there and survived.
Some people bought their safety and are living underground, with new and harsher rules. I don't envy them. I could never live underground, because I would feel like I was suffocating. I would also rather have the freedom to live my life the way that I choose to live it.
I often wonder, why they needed to mess with the earth and its atmosphere, in the first place? It often comes down to how greedy these people can get, and how far they will go, before it is too late to reverse the damage that they have been causing.
What were they thinking? Did they think that this would not affect them or their families? Or perhaps they didn't need to worry about the after effects of their actions, because they knew about the underground cities, and paid for their reservations in advance.
Everything outside looks ugly now. The earth is no longer a place of beauty. I think out loud ... What if these things were never allowed to happen?
What if oil was never discovered? What if cars were never invented? And so on and so forth. Man and corporations have sucked the life out of our planet earth, and now because of that, we are left to die a miserable death.
Children use to play outside, but with all of the new electronic gadgets, which were invented to take their minds away from critical thinking, they had kept children from playing outside and using their imaginations, like I and many other children did, when we were growing up, before these things were invented.
As time went on, I began to realize that the children were no longer living with their parents, because their parents were now living in military like dorms, above ground. Their children now belong to the ones in charge, who are living underground, and those children are being molded into mini soldiers from hell. The children begin training as young as 3 years old. The children have no contact with their real parents, and only have female supervision from the time they are born, until their third birthday, then from that point on they only have male supervision. I am against this because mother's are very important to a child's life, when they are growing up.
We, on the top side, are left with Nuclear Cities. The buildings have a hellish look to them. All the plants around them are dead. The businesses are all closed, except for places to buy water, and very little food products. We can't drink water unless it is from a bottle, which cost a lot of money now. I remember when I scoffed at paying $1 for a bottled water, because water is a necessity of life, and we can't live without it. Water should by all means be free. With that said, it now cost $7 to buy one bottle. I don't trust their bottled water, so I have it tested before I drink any of it. It is easier to see now that they don't care if we live or die, so it is best to be cautious.
Finding untainted food to eat, that is another story, which I will touch upon in the future. With that said, war and unnatural disasters can really make life very hard to deal with.
Most people, who have been captured, are stuck living in tight quarters, with other survivors, and are still waiting for a miracle to happen. I hear that they pray a lot. So far their higher being hasn't shown up yet. I think that they are on their own now, and that there will be no saving them. That is why I am still on the outside. I know that it is up to me to keep myself safe from the people in charge, so that I can choose my own destiny, instead of one that they have chosen for me.
Until next time ... Over and Out.