Free Highway To Armageddon by Harold Bloemer Page B

Wall Street was demolished, and with it
trillions of dollars’ worth of wealth evaporated. The entire planet was plunged
into a depression overnight. On a side note, that same hurricane flooded the
Potomac, forcing Washington, D.C. to be relocated to the interior of Alaska.”
               
I stop to give Blade a chance to finish typing. “Wow, who knew homework could
be so exciting?”
               
“It’s not exciting, Blade,” Harpoon laments thoughtfully. “Boom Boom is telling
us about a horrible period in world history. It’s why things are so screwed up
today.”
               
Blade sighs and rolls his eyes. He hates it when his sister criticizes him.
               
“So what happened next?” he asks eagerly.
               
“Well, the hurricane was the catalyst that led to the Climate Change War.
Millions of people began leaving the growing deserts of South and Central
America and tried to migrate to the northern part of the U.S. So did Americans
who lived in the western and southern part of the country. The government was
overwhelmed. Canada and Alaska were the only parts of the North American
continent that benefited from the changing climate. The warming temperatures
thawed the frozen tundra and the climate there actually became quite pleasant.
Mere months after the New York Hurricane, the U.S. military invaded Canada and
overthrew the government. Canada became America’s newest and biggest state, and
millions of people set up settlements there and in Alaska.  
               
“Soon the U.S. started building Sanctuary cities for rich people who could
afford to live there. We now have 50 Sanctuary cities scattered throughout
Canada and Alaska. This was in response to exploding crime rates all over the
country. The depression forced the country to radically slash their budgets,
laying off thousands of police officers. This allowed crime to flourish, a
problem that exists to this day.
               
“War erupted in the east, too. The Chinese Empire was reeling from the growing
Gobi Desert and receding coast lines. Their population was (and still is) much
larger than ours, so they decided to invade their massive neighbor to the
north, Russia. That’s why the news is always filled with reports of Russian
terrorists waging a guerrilla war against their Chinese overlords.
               
“The entire continent of Africa basically transformed into a giant desert,
forcing hundreds of millions of Africans to migrate up through Europe. The
Middle East became a barren wasteland as well. Europe quickly devolved into a
bastion of hatred and discrimination, as the traditionally white population
grew resentment over the influx of African and Arabic immigrants. Germany
became gripped in the same racist, fascist fever that propelled it to world war
in the 20 th century. Great Britain and other surrounding countries
followed suit. Immigrants were rounded up and routinely beaten, jailed, and
massacred. The entire continent of Europe is now basically a Neo Nazi-esque
wasteland cut off from the rest of the world. No one knows how many ethnic
immigrants have succumbed to this new Holocaust, but it is rumored to be in the
tens of millions.”
               
“Omigosh, that’s terrible!” Harpoon cries.
               
“Yeah, this isn’t exciting anymore,” Blade says, looking a little sick in the
face.
               
“History is saturated with such atrocities,” I say sadly. “100 years ago such
crimes would have been condemned by the international community. There was a
coalition of nations called NATO that helped overthrow genocidal regimes. Alas,
that was a long time ago. Now genocide is met with a
shrug.      
               
“Pretty soon the U.S. and China had invaded all the available arable land on
Earth, with the exception of Europe, which, like I said, became cut off from
the rest of the