Fusion power is finally a thing, if still not “too cheap to meter”, and solar exists on a monumental scale, and recycling is universal thanks to dumb nanotech (smart nanotech is forbidden on Earth for very good reasons). What used to be Canada, Alaska, Siberia, Greenland, Iceland and the Antarctic (not to mention a Argentine Patagonia) have become far more populous as people have migrated from the stifling heat and droughts of the middle parts of the globe, although in recent decades some of the more blasted and desolate parts of the globe have been repopulated as advances technologies of moisture condensation, industrial desalinization of sea water, synthetic and indoor skyscraper farm food production and cheap refrigerated clothing have made possible for humans to deal with parts of their planet as if colonizing a hostile alien planet. Some areas combining high humidity and high temperatures alike have become rather inhumanly muggy in summer: In coastal India and south Arabia and the lands of the old Deep South alike there are many days a year when people stay in their ubiquitously air-conditioned houses and only venture out wearing clothes with built-in cooling systems. It’s a hot, summer world, and quite a lot of ice has melted, although plenty more remains: sea levels are still far from stabilized. In the year 2210, a new stability of sorts exists. New religious movements sprouted as old faiths proved inadequate or downright absent. Corporate states and new forms of socialism backed by computers actually capable of planning an economy arose, and a rash of revolutionary ecology broke out in the Americas. Combined with the rising sea levels and increasingly unreliable rainfall resulting from global climate change, the next century was a bit anarchic, and few state entities survived the era without some major political or geographic changes. WWIII was a bit of a damp squib (a mere 40 million dead and largely a return to the status quo ante), but WWIV in the 2070s, starting with the whole US First Strike attempt, was distinctly more impactive. The world of Risk 2210! This world initially diverges from ours in WWII, with the US holding into Greenland and Communism in China being confined to the Manchuria era, and continued to go off in other directions as the Soviet Union failed to collapse as OTL. A commission for Venusian Si over at ah.com
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