But humanity adapted. We became a species of constant movement. Since we couldn't stop the growth, we fueled our world with it. The excess tissue was surgically harvested in "Lipo-Plants" to be refined into biofuels. We literally ran our cities on the weight of our own bodies.
Society became quieter, slower, and strangely more empathetic. We were all carrying the same burden, second by second. No one was thin, so no one was judged. 1 Fat Every Second
The "Fat" didn't come from food. It was atmospheric, a biological glitch in the air we breathed. Every sixty seconds, exactly sixty grams of dense, subcutaneous adipose tissue would manifest on every human body on Earth. One gram, every second. Month 1: The Novelty But humanity adapted
By noon, the world realized it wasn’t a countdown. It was a tally. The excess tissue was surgically harvested in "Lipo-Plants"
Five years in, the human form was unrecognizable. The average human carried 360 pounds of "Ticker-Mass" in addition to their original weight.