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Extremes

A concerned citizen fights for fossil fuels.

By Skyler SaundersPublished 3 years ago 1 min read
Extremes
Photo by Marcin Jozwiak on Unsplash

Maddie Hoffton coughed intermittently. The same way the wind turbines functioned left her in the dark and coughing from the rhinovirus. She died.

Months later, the heat became unbearable in Newark, Delaware. The solar panels worked only when the sun shined. Too many cloudy, muggy days passed and Oscar Century sweated and ultimately perished.

Tag Timberline looked at cases like these and pushed for fossil fuels to be implemented in the city.

He received three rejections. But running on the might of the empowered world, he remained stradfast. On the fourth try, he showed information and won his final case.

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