Record LFC08.08: Resource Futures Index (RFI)
Issued by: Office of Energetic Debris (OED)
Last Registered Use: 3 May 2068 — Reckoning Years
Classification: Extractive forecasting protocol/ obsolete
Summary: Designed to forecast the longevity of extractive energy systems, the RFI tracked the depletion of oil seams, coal beds, gas pockets, and forest canopies under academic oversight. Early iterations (2020s) were framed as “energy transition metrics” linked to youth manifestos and feminist collectives demanding justice and decolonization. By the 2030s, the RFI no longer forecasted transition, but desperation: limits digging, scales of sacrifice, and ecosystems chosen for trade.
Highest Recorded RFI:
Site UG-041 (Southeastern Uganda, 2025–35): Women excluded from small-scale loans after charcoal was labeled “destructive.” Resulted in intensified deforestation, bare land by 2075, lethal water scarcity.
Site Y4C-026 (Youth4Climate Summit, Milan, 2021): Youth demanded “just, inclusive transitions to renewable energy by 2030.” Demands archived as pledges, recoded as “youth engagement strategies.”
Site SW-CL-07 (SWANA Climate Sirens, 2022): Feminist collectives in Southwest Asia & North Africa linked climate collapse to occupation, militarization, and extractivism. They warned: “Your sustainability is our suffocation.” Warnings muted at COP venues, absorbed into academic citations, severed from policy.
Atmospheric Note: Universities shifted from imagining planetary futures to adjudicating destruction. Youth tokenized, women sidelined, feminist sirens footnoted.
Postscript: The RFI ended with the collapse of the fossil-fueled universities (c 2065). Its ruins of RFI remain as fossils of deferred justice – a record of what was known, but never acted upon. By 2075, community- and nature-based universities emerged – rooted in interdependence, not extraction.