Every day in the life of any villager under thirty, this terrible eruption - the flaring of gas from the oil extracted by PetroGlobal Luandia from beneath the deep - red clay - had
never ceased, its
searing, poisonous
heat denuding trees, killing birds and animals, and turning the rainfall to acid, which corroded the roofs that sheltered the people's thatched homes.
Then, there were the king tides that flooded Miami, the
heat waves that
seared the southwest, the tornadoes that scarred the southeast, and the rains that
never came in the Cascades.