The world’s resources are running perilously low and the human population is at an all time high. Every human being on the planet, no matter what the nationality, religion, race, or location needs so many resources to continue to live. When these needs are not met and affect large populations conflict is almost a certainty.
Rather than investing in new technologies and in education to uplift the population, the world powers scramble to secure the most resources possible triggering a series of regional wars and conflicts. Alliances and trade cartels attempt to concentrate resources for the top strata of the ruling elite.
Using inadvisable methods, more hydrocarbons are coaxed out of the ground, compounding the climate change problems of the world and polluting more water sources.
Economic inequality continues to spiral out of control. The ruling elite turn to technology in the form of drones and mass media propaganda to control the masses and force them to accept lower standards of living by distracting them with entertainment programs and using low quality mass-produced foodstuffs.
Arable land begins to diminish due climate change. Fish schools exploited for food collapse due to harvesting pressures. The last of the great rain forests felled. Air quality begins to suffer worldwide.
The last nonaligned countries are subsumed into the trading cartels. The large alliances have no other choice but to turn on one another. The mass media entertainment used to control the ever-growing lower classes begins to lose its appeal as food shortages begin.
Small scale clashes begin between the large powers for control of more resources. Small scale nuclear exchange. Mass revolts begin worldwide as people protest wars and food shortages. Self nuclear strikes as ruling elite try to curve revolts.
Mass starvation as distribution network collapses due to strife and fuel shortages. Large cities begin to depopulate as people flee to the countryside.
Technological reversal as the hydrocarbon economy ends and the animal powered economy restarts.
World human population collapses to 20 million. Planet begins process of regeneration that will take tens of thousands of years.
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