Ultimatum - Matthew Glass

It's 2032. You've just been elected President of the United States with a mandate for wholesale reform, including reforming your country's response to an environmental crisis that is already critical. Low-lying cities like New Orleans and Miami are being flooded; drought and desertification are rife inland. It is already clear that a massive relocation of people from the affected areas will be needed, at a massive cost, but that's - sort of - all right. You've persuaded the electorate to vote for that. Then, within a few days of the election, you learn that the outgoing administration has been hiding the true extent of the emergency. The onrushing catastrophe ...  Read the complete review