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!!The scenario depicted is a fan work and its subject matter is the product of Shirow Masamune's Ghost in the Shell manga, and TV series. I make no claim of ownership beyond fandom!!

2013: Russian petroleum exploration in Siberia strikes a gas pocket beneath the permafrost. The oil rig is destroyed and the explosion causes the already weakening ice under the Russian soil to split open releasing millions of tons of Methan into the atmosphere.

2015: With climate change sent into overdrive the global economy begins to spiral down once again, with crop yields falling do to increasing drought. Sea levels have already risen as much as 10 meters in some places and melting inland glaciers make clean water a rare commodity in developing countries.

2016-2020 WWIII: Strapped for food and water, The Shanghai Cooperation Organization stops exporting rice and other food-stuffs to the West. With crop yields in the Mid-West leading to food riots in major cities across Europe and America, NATO demands the SCO reopen trade routs.

Tensions reach the tipping point when a Chinese attack submarine accidentally fires on a French cargo ship in the Indian Ocean. NATO declares war the next day. The conflict quickly goes nuclear, however nuclear countermeasures on both sides, and the degrading state of global weapons stockpiles make tactical nukes the primary weapon.

By War's end Japan has spread a new nano-robotic nuclear scrubber into the atmosphere, sparing the world the nightmare of fallout radiation. China has occupied most of India and South East Asia while Russian forces have driven NATO back from their borders. Both sides agree to an armistice in November at the Toronto Peace Talks.

2035: Present Day: The developed world has carved a level of stability for themselves, while other places continue to suffer from starvation, internal war, and the water crisis. Africa's borders a little more than UN Designations for specific cultural regions, with The United Arab Federation (the product of the 2011 Arab Spring) being the only real exception. Japan, spared the nightmare of nuclear war, has risen to become the world's greatest economic power, however China's recovery is speeding up, and its military might, bolstered by their alliance with the Russo-American Alliance threatens that status. Europe has accepted its fate, and formed a Union State, which as a whole is strong enough to resist the titans of China and Russia, however NATO is but a memory from an old era, and their status as anything more than a regional power has been abandoned.

Much of South America has recently thrown of the reigns of the American Empire sponsored regimes, the most famous being in Jenoma. Asia is not without unrest, Russia has finally given up on bringing the Gavel Republic back into its dominion, and accepted the oil nation's sovereignty as a semi-annoying, but useful buffer state between themselves and the Chinese.

Description
!!The scenario depicted is a fan work and its subject matter is the product of Shirow Masamune's Ghost in the Shell manga, and TV series. I make no claim of ownership beyond fandom!!

2013: Russian petroleum exploration in Siberia strikes a gas pocket beneath the permafrost. The oil rig is destroyed and the explosion causes the already weakening ice under the Russian soil to split open releasing millions of tons of Methan into the atmosphere.

2015: With climate change sent into overdrive the global economy begins to spiral down once again, with crop yields falling do to increasing drought. Sea levels have already risen as much as 10 meters in some places and melting inland glaciers make clean water a rare commodity in developing countries.

2016-2020 WWIII: Strapped for food and water, The Shanghai Cooperation Organization stops exporting rice and other food-stuffs to the West. With crop yields in the Mid-West leading to food riots in major cities across Europe and America, NATO demands the SCO reopen trade routs.

Tensions reach the tipping point when a Chinese attack submarine accidentally fires on a French cargo ship in the Indian Ocean. NATO declares war the next day. The conflict quickly goes nuclear, however nuclear countermeasures on both sides, and the degrading state of global weapons stockpiles make tactical nukes the primary weapon.

By War's end Japan has spread a new nano-robotic nuclear scrubber into the atmosphere, sparing the world the nightmare of fallout radiation. China has occupied most of India and South East Asia while Russian forces have driven NATO back from their borders. Both sides agree to an armistice in November at the Toronto Peace Talks.

2035: Present Day: The developed world has carved a level of stability for themselves, while other places continue to suffer from starvation, internal war, and the water crisis. Africa's borders a little more than UN Designations for specific cultural regions, with The United Arab Federation (the product of the 2011 Arab Spring) being the only real exception. Japan, spared the nightmare of nuclear war, has risen to become the world's greatest economic power, however China's recovery is speeding up, and its military might, bolstered by their alliance with the Russo-American Alliance threatens that status. Europe has accepted its fate, and formed a Union State, which as a whole is strong enough to resist the titans of China and Russia, however NATO is but a memory from an old era, and their status as anything more than a regional power has been abandoned.

Much of South America has recently thrown of the reigns of the American Empire sponsored regimes, the most famous being in Jenoma. Asia is not without unrest, Russia has finally given up on bringing the Gavel Republic back into its dominion, and accepted the oil nation's sovereignty as a semi-annoying, but useful buffer state between themselves and the Chinese.