Beyond the Sun - room info

[Unwritten]

The people of Earth continued to turn a blind eye to the problem of climate change and it only grew worse over the years.  As extreme weather events became the new normal, it could no longer be denied that something was wrong, but no one seemed to be able to cure the problem.

As if the raging thunderstorms and hurricanes soaking everything weren't bad enough, the warming planet's ice caps melted and formerly tropical, low lying coastal regions of North America were lost beneath the rising tides of a new, higher sea level.  The southwest stayed dry, but grew even hotter, stuck in unrelenting triple digit heatwaves that left the area unfit for habitation.  The central U.S. and Canada were not spared devastation as back to back massive tornadoes spawned endlessly, ruining formerly fertile fields and much of the food supply, as well as countless homes.  Those people that managed to survive were forced to migrate northeast, but that was not without its peril as the region stayed locked in seemingly permanent winter when a new ice age clutched the land in its frosted grip while everyone struggled to find a way to live in the inhospitable, but only remaining territory that was livable...barely.  The borders were a thing of the past.  None of that mattered when the three countries of North America were reduced to a sliver of their former populations and only a fragment of the lands that each used to claim.  Corralled into a small territory that consisted of the Northeast U.S. and southeast Canada, people fought for survival, day in and day out.

Fifteen years after the first "State of Emergency" had been declared, nothing had gotten better...only worse.  Twenty five foot tall snowbanks were considered small as most ranged from forty to sixty feet high, leaving any buildings under five stories buried.  What was left of most roadways and railways were long past impassable and any vehicles left that somehow weren't hidden in drifted snow weren't capable of running in such extreme cold.  No aircraft were ever built to withstand such frigid conditions and nary a plane nor a chopper had graced the skies in well over a decade.  Subways might still have been an option if enough people educated in their mechanics had been left to maintain them, but instead those tunnels seemed to be either filled with ice or studded with frozen bodies as being left underground in them was the closest anyone could come to a proper burial anymore.  That might seem disgraceful, but many considered it to be a kinder fate than the alternative of their corpse being left out for scavenging cannibals to dine upon in the open as grocery stores and restaurants were obviously part of a bygone era with the loss of power grids.

That is what the world had become - smaller, colder, and infinitely more cruel.  Survival of the fittest wasn't just some remark tossed about - it was reality and most can't hack it.  Can you?