Tom Norton

2050 It Isn't Pretty Tom Norton

The backdrop of this story is a time and conditions in the very near future that most people living today will experience. Regardless of the cause of climate change, it was raising its ugly head well before the twenty-first century. The rate of change in the warming climate increased dramatically in the twenty-first century and by the year 2050 the hand writing was on the wall, and it read, the Earth is losing its ability to sustain human life. The conditions at the time of this story are when mankind can still adapt to the ever worsening warming and the hurricanes and typhoons it spawned. The national and international communities are in a situation of cooperation as well as one of conflict due to the increasing warm to hot conditions and the impending doom to be faced in the future. This story plays out under these climatic conditions and concerns a scenario that may be given a great deal of thought in the near future. This isn't an end of the world story, it's a; we are on our way, story.