A Global Warning
The ice mocked the humans as they proceeded to the statue of the Prophecy. It slipped and slowed them down, the biting cold hitting them in the face, but they had no choice. They must keep going for their children to one day play in the sun and not pay for their sins. The emptiness and vastness of the snow which covered everything that man had held dear, showed nature's wrath. To all the carbon emissions, the greenhouse gases, the attempts at her destruction, humans could not understand that she would take vengeance.
Now, facing nature's wrath, they had come to the prophecy as their last hope. The statue of hopelessness and defeat loomed ahead, of a human saddened and trying to kill nature but frozen in time. Nature sure had a wry sense of humour.
The leader of men reached the Prophecy, here was their last hope.