Digital Pessimism We hope to disappoint
Our future correspondent Paco McFly has moved to the USA in 2020 and has found that the most pessimistic predictions about climate change have been fulfilled.
Following the victory in the 2016 election, Donald Trump began a series of measures, including the increase in investment in heavy industries, the halting of all environmental projects and the creation of the new airline AirTrump, which holds the Guinness World CO2 emissions record.
2020. McFly in Times Square, New York. Source: Digital Pessimism.
The result was a gradual increase in temperatures and accelerated melting of the north pole, whose ice sheet has been reduced to 2%, increasing the water level throughout the planet to 200 meters during these years.
US territory is 40% flooded and most of the American population is concentrated in Alaska, Kansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
The American economy, as in much of the world, has reverted back to the primary sector and salmon fishing is the main occupation of millions of People, given the scarcity of food and the destruction of 90% of crops.
As Paco McFly has been able to consult, the rest of the countries are in a similar situation and the planet as we know it now has disappeared.
The Grand Canyon, the shot of climate change.
McFly then moved to the Grand Canyon, Colorado, to meet with the New York Times newsroom and get more information about the status quo .
The famous newspaper now has its headquarters in a mercantile sailing ship, from where it generates the news and from where Paco has been able to send us this unpublished video of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, so that we can give an idea of the complicated world situation:
This is what little we know so far, since McFly just arrived today to 2020. We will continue to inform you of the planetary situation when we have more information. God bless America .
