AND SO IT CAME TO PASS:769Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn0qZSvcPHx
The world population had tripled to nine billion. The fragile balloon that had sustained it finally burst....
The waste that had so continually been pumped into the waters of the Earth were now merely that for the sea had become devoid of life...
The land had been raped. Its plant life had been consumed faster than it could reproduce by not only the overpopulated human world but by animal life as well. Roughly estimated at one-tenth the mass of plant life, the animals themselves increased their population to over two fifths of what nature could produce and starvation subsequently followed.
Great droughts had left deserts where green valleys had once existed and the polluted irrigation ditches poisoned what was left of an Earth already scorched by senseless fires.
The air brought its own bacteriological warfare to bare upon the peoples of the Earth and there were more casualties and deaths among the living creatures of the Earth than the combined casualties of each and every war since the beginning of man.
As once before with Noah, the End was upon us. And, as once before there came into being another ark---the Jupiter II!769Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuUA0j9AevK
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A little less than one hundred years ago, when disaster, looking for a place to happen, settled down upon the Earth, MAJ. DONALD WEST, a scientist/soldier of much consequence took his family and a small community of other scientists and their families down into the bowels of the Earth and into a survival shelter had had prepared for such an occasion.769Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnZlW4GXEd0
There, they waited for the day the Earth above could once more become habitable. While they waited, with limited tools and equipment they managed to survive and plan and prepare for the future. As their families grew and the elders passed on completing their normal life span, time continued to pass.769Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtcyoi8SxtG
The survivors were not without their own limitations nor were illness and disease strangers to them. Their lot dwindled in number. Their heirs picked up where they left off and though the number grew smaller, the hopes for tomorrow grew larger and larger every day. Then, the time came. Amos Mason, the elder of the survivors, and their leader, proclaimed it was time for some of the younger members to go forth and begin again.769Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Yf3KU7iKu
The young man chosen to head the expedition was the great, great grandson of the man who had brought them here, and so it was fitting that his namesake be the man to lead them out.769Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ4eWNXREYf
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