At the end of the 22nd century, shorelines were submerged.

Those were the years after the ice caps had melted...because of the greenhouse gases, and the oceans had risen drowning so many cities...along all the shorelines of the world. Amsterdam, Venice, New York-Forever lost.

Hundreds of millions of people starved in poorer countries. Elsewhere a high degree of prosperity survived...when most governments in the developed world...introduced lega