I am reminded of a presient episode of the Twillight Zone when a gravitational anomally from a possible wandering neutron star throws the Earth closer to the Sun. An oil painter who did not evacuate her urban apartment building is left behind and watches her paintings melt, fires rage and water disappear.

In reality she is in a fevered nightmare and is dying of infection while Earth is thrown away from the Sun to freeze in a farther orbit.

Our reality is worse, we did it to ourselves.