Introduction

Drought 200 years ago plunged much of the inhabited world into chaos. The effects of climate change already show eerie parallels to the aftermath of the ancient drought. Animal and plant species are dying out at a rate comparable to that of the five mass extinctions in the three point seven billion years since life first appeared. That's why we need the promise of apocalypse, by peter momsonwhere the earthworms stopped, a world had ended.