Fast-forward just two generations (if you are young you'll still be around): The Jolsyn and Kelcher families experience what we and our neighbors will face as the world's oil wells run dry, the planet is swept by global warming, and water shortages loom.
Janus Joslyn, born in 2017, writes his memoirs n 2087, telling how he and his family and neighbors coped. They find themselves in freeway-laced southern California (Metroland, aka Jokerland), almost totally geared to auto transport and dependent on aqueduct water.
They watch as the U.S. is split by conflicts over dwindling energy and...