User blog:ObiWanKenobiJesus/Blinding White

== Introduction == Due to semi-popular demand, I have wrote the introduction to my book. If you guys like it I will write some more.

Part 1: History Lesson
Remember back in 2021 where some people thought that global warming was fake and how we are just recovering from the ice age, well in 2062 all of Antarctica had been melted and you can probably guess the effects of that, widespread flooding, countries under water, tsunamis becoming a weekly thing, pretty much chaos. But like humans we adapted, we built floating cities and learned to eat seaweed with oysters which was a traditional Thanksgiving dish. Now scientists estimated that it would take 11,000 years until we hit the next ice age if this was a cycle but boy were they wrong.

After society became stable again in the ocean age, people looked for a way to get clean energy not wanting to make the situation worse. So in 2123 some found a way to get into space and harness the sun's energy directly from the surface of the sun. Of course, this was highly experimental and it took 73 years for this project to be successful. But finally, the power of the sun had been successfully harnessed and science took off. Flying Cars, hoverboards, ray guns, instant building, poverty, hunger, war all ended, this was the golden age. Until 2623 when some scientist realized that the sun was shrinking, a lot.

So, by 2845 94 percent of the world was covered in ice. Now you might think no big deal you guys can just adapt again with your flying cars and hyper tubes but it only took a few politicians and a few rich folks to destroy democracy in order to become a monarchy and the only thing that came of that was anarchy. And just like that the world's social order reversed, global powers like the U.S, France, and China became a lawless wasteland while developing countries like Mali, Oceania, and Belize managed to keep a stable government. These countries became safe havens and anybody that wanted to be safe tried to get there.

Now with that introduction out of the way, the current year is 2847 and my name is Thomas Jackson or T.J for short. I was in Newchetal, France studying abroad for my senior year when the world collapsed and yes it took one week for the world to collapse. Everything was going smooth for the first few official months of the ice age until the American president Margret Hazel was assassinated. Chaos followed suit - panic buying, people locking themselves in their home, cities going on lock dwn, empty shelves in every store even though one machine could make enough food for a thanksgiving feast every second. And the U.S was just the kindling for the fire. Word spread quickly and similar scenarios happened around the world, martial law, assassinations, total anarchy. My parents and I were on other sides of the world when it happened and we never saw each other again. The world kept getting worse every day from the beginning of 2845 onwards.