Editing Amazing Deliveries (section)

==History==

Apocalypse did not arrive with a flash and a bang. It took its time and snuck in.

It was not an asteroid or nuclear war. It was climate change. The apocalypse was all mankind’s own doing, by greed and short sightedness. When something could have been done, governments, corporations, and most of the people did not want to bear the costs or the limitations to their lifestyle. And bit by bit things changed.

At first the effects were relatively minor. A flood here, a drought there, more extreme weather. When the polar caps melted and sea level started to rise, flooding the coastal cities, everyone started taking things seriously, but by then it was too late to stop what was happening.

Then things went slowly but surely downhill. Water rationing and food rationing advanced to thirst and starvation. Climate refugee crisis turned into mass exodus as some areas of the world became unable to support human life. With the crop failures, diminishing water resources and conflicts, the numbers of humankind dwindled, and for a while it appeared that they would become just another victim of the extinction event they had created.

But that did not happen.

When stopping the change was no longer possible, efforts turned to enduring it. Shelters were built to hide from the climate that was turning increasingly deadly, whether those were simple concrete bunkers, underground complexes or advanced protective domes. Colonies sprung up in the Solar System as people fled Earth for space. Moisture gatherers and wells drilled deep into crust gathered drinkable water. Genetically modified crops, protein farms, and other innovative food sources appeared. And humankind suffered but ultimately endured.