Rand Green saw his farm go dry. His ancestors survived five
generations of hardship, but nothing like the Great Drought. First, there was
water rationing. Only those who maintain their rights to underground wells,
lakes or river runoff could produce food or keep livestock. Collecting
rainwater was outlawed.
By 2022, McNally’s MME Corporation successfully purchased most of
the riparian rights in the American West. MME systematically re-routed all the
river water with their new dam. Other dams stopped generating hydroelectric
power because of the water shortages. The New Macon Dam owned by MME remains
operational.
If Rand doesn’t stop McNally, the President of MME, he believes
there will be famine and wildfires that release enormous amounts of carbon
dioxide into the atmosphere.
Rand packs tools, rations, automatic weapons and his family into
the Bobcat, leaving behind the red baby swing on the clothesline.
“We will avenge the
displaced.”
Rand is raises his lean arm to brush the dust out of his eldest son’s
hair.
“Listen children,” Rand reads from Isaiah 24:4 - 6
“The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.”
Excerpt from novel in progress ECO TERRORIST
copyright © Caroline Gerardo 2013
