Creative Writing - Fiction - The Future1

At the turn of the century, it was apparent that we, the human race, could no longer continue at the rate we were going. At several billion people, we were rapidly multiplying at an exponential rate. Scientists declared an international emergency because of drastic depleation of natural resources. It became obvious that in a few decades the continuation of the human way of life would be impossible if we did not find a solution to …

…to which the humans were not immune. There appeared to be no problems, so the scientists informed the aliens, now known as TetraHeliateCesites (Tetras for short), that they would leave and return with the entire human species in about four hundred years. The humans were true to their word, and returned on a huge spacecraft with all of the human race in year 2603. They have lived in happy harmony for the last four hundred years.