Drowned Worlds by Jonathan Strahan

Author:Jonathan Strahan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Rebellion Publishing Ltd

Approximately twenty million people were killed in the La Palma tsunami, either in the wave itself or in the earthquakes, building and freeway collapses, wildfires, gas explosions, spontaneous munitions detonations, air crashes, flooding, inundation, land slippage and avalanche associated with the immediate aftermath. This estimate constitutes a minor proportion of the eventual casualties, those who died in what has come to be known as the aftershock and throughout the longer term of the remapping. Over a period of twenty years, a repeating pattern of severe weather events, famines and disease pandemics arising from those weather events, economic collapse and hyper-inflation, breakdowns in power supply and food distribution, prolonged worldwide telecommunications and internet outages, social upheaval and civil unrest, aerial bombardment and the widespread use of previously banned chemical and biological weapons has led to a decrease in world population roughly equal to if not in excess of that documented during the plague pandemics of the 1300s. As the largest number of casualties occurred in areas of the world where communications and medical facilities have been poor to non-existent, it has been impossible to collate anything approaching an exact number. Although a measure of stability has been restored in some areas, continuing climate inconsistencies and consequent shortages of food and clean drinking water have resulted in uncontrolled levels of civic violence in others. Mass migrations of homeless people in search of better living conditions and adequate food supplies have further exacerbated the ongoing refugee crisis.

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