Imagine a sky so filled with soot that spring comes 10 days late and winter two weeks early.

Imagine the failure of the world wheat crop. Soybeans that die. Shriveled stalks of corn. Windrows of yellowed leaves in August. Livestock sickens. The birds have disappeared.

Famine sweeps the Third World. A billion people flee across borders. Vast regions become abandoned. Governments fall. Hundreds of millions die.

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