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Imagine 2200, Grist’s climate fiction initiative, celebrates stories that invite us to imagine the future we want — futures in which climate solutions flourish and we all thrive. Discover more stories. Or sign up for email updates to get new stories in your inbox.

Visitor, what is hunger?

— You don’t have to call me visitor anymore, Aru — I replied, giving myself time to think about the question. — You can use my name. Because, technically, I’m a refugee.

Fifteen years old. The whole class wasn’t older than that, and yet it was the third question of that magnitude I’d been asked in a week. 

Aru blinked assertively and asked the question again:

— Redson, what’s hunger like?

— I’m not sure I understand. You want to know how people get to starve?

— No, we know that. The Great Famine Age ha... Read more

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