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Chapter 568: Heavy Burden

Chapter 568 A heavy burden

Author: Lingnan Three People

Chapter 568 A heavy burden

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 into crisis again.

Yet many natural people have had enough.

With increasingly severe weather and increasing 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 exactly 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 the large-scale investment in military industry and aerospace.

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

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

Even as time goes by, the problems within the Europa Community and the Free Association have become more and more obvious.



South Pacific.

Wellington, 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 even more troublesome is that this change is not stable, and 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 its boss, America. However, America is also unable to protect itself at this time, and naturally has no way to squeeze out food to help New Zeland.

Within the free association established 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 of self-sufficiency 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 20-30%.

Another conjugated kingdom, Britain, 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 Federation, coupled with the riots that broke out in various places, further triggered chaos within the Free Federation.

Naturally, New Zeland has no way to protect itself.

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 floods.

With the arrival of spring in the Southern Hemisphere, Antarctica's crazy-growing ice sheet is also shrinking. In this case, a large number of icebergs are separated from the ice sheet and drift toward low-latitude seas along with 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 accompanied the icebergs. These conditions have seriously affected shipping.

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

A wave of defeatism is growing within New Zealand.

On the streets of Wellington.

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

Bang!

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

"Fake!"

"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, explosions, smoke and fire filling the streets, as well as chaotic crowds running around.

Bang bang bang! After a while, there was another short gunshot.

It was chaos.

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 violent suppression, New Zeland's management has already felt the oppression of the coming storm, as well as the undercurrents surging in various places.

The supply of food is insufficient and the possibility of purchasing it from other places is getting smaller and smaller.

New Zeland 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 trouble now, Japan and South Korea are also in a lot of trouble.

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., I can still grit my 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 has no choice but to follow the example of Kangaroo Country, slaughter some sheep and beef cattle, and replace part of the food with meat.

There is no other way around this.

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.

(End of chapter)


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