Challenge #04169-K151: Foiled Escape Plans

The weather was warmer than usual, and though the CEO's and their reporters were touting how this was a good thing, and that a warmer, wetter, world was good for the people, others were taking notice. While the CEO's, subtly, not so subtly, began building sea-walls to protect their mansions, the rest of the populace of the world began to defy their masters, and work on ways to curbing emissions. Those CEO's that tried to stop them... got a sharp reminder that the population don't like to choked out and overheated. -- Anon Guest

Time conceals patterns. Those who refuse to learn the lessons of history fail to see the warning signs, and become potential lessons for those who follow them in the stream of time.

Case in point: The Terran colony, New Freedom.

Like thousands of others before it, the colonists went with the intention to exploit as much as they liked and to ignore the consequences as much as possible. Consequences that hit well before the colony reunited with the Alliance.

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