Prompt ….
PHOTO PROMPT © Ronda Del Boccio
Erratic floods, superstorms, droughts and volcanic outbursts left this planet with only1% of inhabitable land and roughly 0.5% of population ( a number that many rich believed the planet of early 21st century could ecologically sustain).
The habitable parts are small pocket at the poles with wide stretches of water and deserts separating them. Thanks to the technology the survivors lived well.
Each colony is a self-sustaining entity. Vertical farms, transgenic animal husbandry and nano manufacturing met the basic needs.
A small pause and the video continued – unfortunately the average height of humans is just 6 inches now.
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TT ~ Tom Thumbs
Thanks for the prompt Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. SHALOM.
Yarnspinnerr 
With six inches they need a lot less resources. On the other hand, if there are any birds left, they’d see them as a good snack…
🙂 If they have also not been shrunk.
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Ha ha – loved that last line and loved your take on the photo prompt.
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Glad. Thank you so much.
Ha! Great ending.
Thank you.
Well, at least we’re still clinging on somehow…
True! Thanks a lot.
They are tiny tots, and no doubt at the mercy of many insects. Interesting scenario
Thanks MH.
I love the way your imagination went from the plants in the prompt to little, tiny humans!
That shiny grass in the small balcony took me to all the grass-lands that have either been flooded, built on or desertified. Rest followed.
Thanks for the read and your feedback.
Oh wow I am a borrower! I always dreamt I was. Great job!
Glad this appealed to you. Thanks a lot for the read and encouragement.
It was great fun.
I loved your imagination!
🙂 Very happy. Thank you.
Entirely my pleasure!
I wonder how tall giraffes will be. 10 inches maybe?
May be a foot … if they survive 🙂
Thanks KR.
Sounds like nature adopted a reasonable strategy to protect itself: divide and conquer. Interesting little read.
That is one way of looking at it. Thanks for the read and interest.
LOLOL … 6″ inches that’s my height right now.
I guess I’ll be able to survive. Nice take on the prompt.
Isadora 😎
Thank you/ 🙂
This one made me smile, even in the midst of all that destruction.
Glad it did not depress you. Thanks a lot.
wow- cool idea with the tom thumb connection – and gets one thinking
Glad it clicked with you. Thanks for the read and interest.
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and think there should be a dash in self-sustaining (when used as adjective?)
Added that. Thanks.
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Thats great, a miniature dystopian tale, just makes me wonder how did we evolve to become so small?
I am sure an imaginative SF writer can explain or it may be too far-fetched to be possible. Thanks for the read.
Imaginative take, I too saw it from the perspective of someone short 🙂
The tall grass evoked that image. Thanks a lot AB.
Just loved this one! 6 inches !
Glad, Thanks a lot.
Loved the tiny twist at the end there. I have a tiny garden and have always envied the cats that wander through and truly enjoy my plants from about a foot off the ground. 6 inches – even better!
Small is beautiful. 🙂
Thank you so much for the read and sharing your thoughts.
Such a witty and inventive tale. Clever to start with statistics and numbers about Planet Earth, then bring in the tiny T T’s. Well done.
Glad you liked it. Thank you. 🙂
Wow, that’s creepy, Yarnspinner. The common age in the U.S. is already decreasing. Now we have to worry about the common height. Good writing. 🙂 — Suzanne
Glad you liked it. Just tried writing a parody of dystopian fiction. 🙂 Thanks a lot for the read and lovely comment.
Common age in the UK is decreasing also apparently. It was on the news this week I wonder if subtle reductions in height will be mentioned next. Such an imaginative tale.
Height, weight and life expectancy of populations are influenced by many factors. However, subtle changes in smaller groups could go undetected as population data on height and weight is not routinely collected for large populations.
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Yeah, more like me (hehe). Very entertaining story. =)
Glad you enjoyed this. Thanks a lot. 🙂
Shrinking to that size they will have had to started everything from scratch, or learnt fast to work together to use some of those old technologies and tools. A wonderful imaginative take.
They shrunk gradually surviving in the post dystopian world. May be it was a fractional change in gravity or the reduced availability of resources.
Yet it would be a difficult as you rightly point out. Thanks for the read and interest.
Brilliant ending!
Glad you like it.
Thanks for the read and comment.