The Catastrophe (NE)

The Catastrophe is the term used to describe the period of human history from 2020 - 2100, which was characterized by famine, war, suffering, mass death, and massive floods and heat waves; all due to to climate change. The period was dominated by war for the first 70 years, until governments collapsed in many nations and billions perished in floods that engulfed entire continents. The remaining governments were the Chinese, American, German, Russian, and British governments, which soon began fighting amongst each other for remaining resources. However, in 2078, the Russians developed nuclear pulse propulsion and mass produced rockets that could take thousands of people to other planets at once, and could make the trip to the moon and back in just under a minute, and Mars and back in an hour and a half. They then spread this technology in limited amounts to the surviving governments and helped them escape in the Great Migration, in which the entirety of the earth's population and resources were moved to Mars or the moon, and provisional governments and cities were set up.