Homo sapiens

Star River Year 3, October 3rd.

The Northern Hemisphere is once again covered in ice and snow.

The Arctic ice cap is rapidly growing southward with the help of the coldness of the ice and snow.

The Great Lakes were completely frozen and the Baltic Sea was no longer navigable.

Open-air agriculture in mid- and high-latitudes has less and less productive time, leading to a further decline in total agricultural production.

Even if the four major forces increase the scale of indoor farming, there is still no way to make up for the decrease in open-air farming.

At this time, a trend quickly spread throughout the free world.

Many ordinary people and middle-class groups have unanimously spoken out, demanding that investment in armaments and aerospace be reduced and resources be allocated to agriculture and people's livelihood.

This trend spread very quickly and exploded with great intensity.

Affected by this, all walks of life of the four major forces have fallen into varying degrees of shutdown, which has put the already precarious market and material supply in crisis again.

Yet many naturals have had enough.

With increasingly bad weather and growing burdens, the military industry and aerospace industry are about to become gold-swallowing behemoths.

Although finance and medical care are also gold-eating beasts, the problem is that these two industries are profitable.

The military industry and aerospace industry are just the opposite.

Now the entire free world is suppressed by the Homo sapiens company. No matter how much armaments are invested, there is no possibility of defeating the opponent. This is like a bottomless pit, which makes people feel extremely resistant.

The same goes for the aerospace industry. The advantages of Homo sapiens companies in low-Earth orbit, the moon, Mars, Venus and other planets are too great. The free world has no hope of catching up, and there is no way to benefit from the aerospace industry.

This has led to many people being extremely dissatisfied with large-scale investment in military industry and aerospace.

Large-scale riots occurred in the Free Federation and the Europa Federation among the four major forces.

Lucia was able to withstand some of the pressure, while his uncle had no major problems due to the bloodletting treatment he had undergone for nearly half a year.

Even with the passage of time, the problems within the Europa Community and the Free Association have become more and more obvious.

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South Pacific.

Wellington City, New Zeland.

As an island with a temperate maritime climate, the original average annual temperature here is around 10 to 30 degrees Celsius, making it a very suitable area for living.

But since global cooling, trouble has begun here.

For example, in the southern region, temperatures start to fall to several degrees below zero in winter.

What's more troublesome is that this change is not stable. It can easily be more than ten degrees Celsius one week and several degrees below zero the next week.

This kind of irregular short-term weather sudden change is too fatal for agricultural production.

This situation has led to a 30-50% reduction in New Zeland's pasture production, a 37% reduction in kiwi fruit production, a 25% reduction in grape production, and a 31% reduction in grain crop production.

When the world is short of food, New Zeland can only turn to the boss America. However, America is also unable to protect itself at this time, so naturally there is no way to squeeze out food to help New Zeland.

Within the Free Association founded by America, there are now several big baggage.

Several of his younger brothers have serious food supply problems.

Maple Leaf Country, which is constantly being eroded by the Arctic ice cap, has less than 30% of its previous food production capacity, and now it is very difficult to even be self-sufficient.

Japan and South Korea, which had no way to be self-sufficient in food, were squeezed by sudden changes in climate. Even if their population was reduced by more than half, their food self-sufficiency rate still dropped to only 20 to 30%.

The British kingdom, another conjugated father and son, also saw its own food self-sufficiency rate drop to only 53%.

Kangaroo Country, the granary and pasture, is now almost half in ruins.

The food crisis plaguing the entire Free Commonwealth, coupled with the riots that broke out in various places, further caused chaos within the Free Commonwealth.

Naturally, New Zeland has no way to survive alone.

Entering October, with the arrival of spring in the southern hemisphere, New Zeland did not feel the warmth of spring and the flowers bloomed. Instead, it rained heavily for more than a week.

Continuous heavy rains, mixed with hail and strong winds, have caused many farms to be affected by flooding.

With the arrival of spring in the Southern Hemisphere, the crazy-growing ice sheets in Antarctica are also shrinking. In this case, a large number of icebergs are separated from the ice sheets and drift towards low-latitude seas along with the ocean currents.

Among them, more than a dozen icebergs of various sizes have recently appeared in the waters near New Zeland. In addition, dense sea fog has accompanied the icebergs. These conditions have seriously affected shipping.

New Zeland, which had been isolated in the South Pacific, now felt even more lonely and helpless.

A wave of defeatism was growing within New Zeeland.

On the streets of Wellington.

Several drunken young people picked up beer bottles and angrily smashed the glass door of the bank.

boom!

Broken glass sputtered around, and dense spider webs of broken marks appeared on the glass door.

"Farke!"

"I'm almost bankrupt! Why do you bastards..."

"I'm not willing to give in!"

Several young people roared like crazy, and then smashed things everywhere. They picked up trash cans, seats, glass bottles, etc. that could be seen around them, and smashed them at the shops on the street.

This kind of behavior was like a spark falling on a powder keg. In an instant, many people who had suppressed their anger also joined in.

Smashing things, setting fires, and beating people broke out in this neighborhood and then spread to the entire Wellington city.

Beep beep beep... the police car that sounded the alarm was blocked in the streets and alleys.

There were screams and explosions everywhere, smoke and fire filled the streets, and there were chaotic crowds running around.

Bang bang bang! After a while, another brief burst of gunfire rang out.

It's a mess.

The city of Wellington is in chaos.

This sudden chaos lasted for two days and two nights, during which dozens of people died and thousands of others were injured.

Although the chaos was temporarily quelled through forceful suppression, New Zeland's management has already felt the oppression of the coming storm, as well as the undercurrents surging in various places.

Food supplies are in short supply and sourcing from elsewhere is becoming less and less possible.

New Zeeland has urgently contacted companies such as Kangaroo Country, Pampas Republic, and Transvaal Republic that may be able to export food, but they have no food either.

Of course, the only place in the world with sufficient food now is the Homo sapiens company.

But the problem is, it’s hard to get food from the Homo sapiens company!

In fact, it's not just New Zeland that's in tangle, Japan and South Korea are also in tangle.

Although America gritted its teeth and gave them a batch of genetically modified corn, the food gap was still very large.

Without mobile phones, computers, daily necessities, etc., you can grit your teeth and get through it.

But without food, people will starve to death.

Even the Kangaroo Nation couldn't sustain the losses and took the initiative to slaughter nearly 5 million sheep. While reducing the consumption of forage and feed, the meat of these sheep was sold to ordinary people at low prices, thus barely stabilizing internal prices.

New Zeland had no choice but to follow the example of Kangaroo Country, slaughter some sheep and beef cattle, and replace part of the grain with meat.

There is no other way.

Although doing so, the consequence is that it will be more difficult and take a long time to restore the sheep and beef cattle stocks in the future.

But they have no other choice.

On the other hand, the Nordic region of the Europa Commonwealth also encountered snowstorms that were even worse than last year since autumn this year.

Thank you for your support (ω｀). The update will be adjusted from noon to evening today and will resume normal updates tomorrow.