The year is 2173. About ninety-five percent of the population is unemployed. Only the wealthy, the one percent own homes. The rest are living on the streets, or in churches that have been abandoned decades ago with the downfall of religion. Normal food is scarce. Instead, people feed on High-Energy Plankton Wafers, called Red Wafers, produced from red Plankton and other algae growing in seawater. Global warming killed off apple trees, strawberry bushes, and bumblebees. No one has seen a bird in ...