Little did people expect when they rallied behind their government's carbon-neutral agenda that they were the carbon it was intended to neutralise.
Starved of carbon dioxide, vegetation vanished along with the earth's wildlife. Crop failures caused widespread food scarcity which swiftly culled the human population to a more manageable 500 million.
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