The rise of nanometers

After having lunch at Time Restaurant, the three of them started wandering around the county town of Three Fox Mountains.

The afternoon sun was strong. After using the special sunscreen, Wen Na really felt different. The previous stinging sensation disappeared, leaving only a slight warmth.

In the biting northwest wind, this warmth gave her a warm feeling.

Apart from the old people and housewives walking on the street, there were not many young people and children. She was not surprised by this situation.

Because the mainland of Greater China is implementing a comprehensive compulsory education and child support plan, children are concentrated in Academy City and rarely go out to hang out except during holidays.

As he walked, Du Lun wrote his travel diary.

Comparing the education systems of the Western Union and North America, the differentiation of the Western education system is actually deeply rooted.

The quality of public schools varies, and it is difficult to compete with private schools. After all, this is determined by the capital society.

Nowadays, in public schools in the West, the trend of raising pigs is becoming more and more obvious, and high-quality resources have been absorbed by private schools, becoming a private reserve for the rich and powerful.

Especially in North America, the gap between public and private schools is even more extreme.

Du Lun was thinking. He saw another world in the East. This was a relatively fair world. Although there was fierce competition, it did not lead to the differentiation of rich and poor resources.

At least in his eyes, this is a world that is truly for the people, rather than a naked prey of the jungle.

Putting down the ballpoint pen in his hand, Du Lun looked into the distance. In the hollow of the concentric circle building, the red sunset looked like a ruby ​​embedded in the grand silver-gray creation.

At this moment, he felt so small and powerless.

There is even an illusion of being out of place.

Rome was still the same for decades, but the East was changing day by day. This strange development gave him a huge psychological gap.

Many things these days have been going over and over in the minds of the three of them. They are thinking about why there is such a huge difference and what is the underlying reason?

The quiet tram speeds past on the suspended light rail.

Only the afterglow of the setting sun takes away a trace of warmth.

The howling north wind became more and more biting, making people shrink involuntarily and wrap themselves up in their down jackets to resist the coldness in the wind.

Suddenly Cliff said: "Duren, two pieces of news."

He turned the notebook on his lap, which listed two pieces of news.

[NASA's Lunar 8 spacecraft has successfully reached the lunar orbit and will land on Outpost 1 at selected times today and tomorrow...]

[Germany and other places are suffering from super cold air and large-scale freezing disasters. The cold air is expected to arrive in northern Gaul tomorrow...]

"Isn't this cold air a bit early?" Wen Na was a little surprised. It was only early November, and there had never been large-scale snowfall in her hometown of Denmark in previous years.

Cliff also frowned. He was worried because he said this question:

"I just logged into the Finnish meteorological website and checked the temperature data for the past 10 years, and found a surprising result. The average annual temperature in Finland has been declining year by year in the past three years."

"..." Du Lun also began to feel something was wrong. He thought for a while: "You try to get the average annual temperature data in various regions. I want to know whether it is a local anomaly or a global trend."

"No problem." Cliff nodded, and then his fingers flew on the keyboard.

More than half an hour later.

Looking at the statistics, the three of them looked at each other, and the result was somewhat beyond their expectations.

What about global warming?

Judging from the current trend, it is obvious that the world is getting colder.

How is this going?

Questions came to mind one after another, and Du Lun, who was somewhat sensitive to all kinds of international information, couldn't help but think wildly.

Global cooling…Space race…Moon base…Mars colonization…

Large greenhouses and indoor farming…

Biogenetic engineering...

After thinking about it carefully and combining these things, Du Lun's heart beat faster, and he felt extremely panic and depression in his heart.

"I understand! I understand!"

"What?" Wen Na was confused.

The panicked Duren said in a somewhat hasty voice: "Think about the super-large indoor agricultural factories you saw before, and those crazy aerospace programs."

"Is there any problem with this?" Wen Na still didn't realize the seriousness of the matter.

Du Lun, who was sweating profusely, replied in a low voice: "If the world becomes colder and enters an ice age, who can survive in such a desperate situation?"

Cliff's pupils shrank sharply: "..."

When Wen Na came back to her senses, she quickly figured out the reason: "There are also some people in the East and North America."

"Yes, they have known about global cooling for a long time, but they have not announced it." Duren was thinking about this matter with a conspiracy theory.

Cliff, whose mind was in a mess, forced himself to calm down: "Even if we know the truth, we can't change everything."

In the cold wind, the three of them seemed to have fallen into an ice cave.

As Cliff said, what's the use of them knowing? Are you tweeting about the possibility of an ice age?

Duren, who majored in journalism, understands very well that the entire Western world is now filled with too many ignorant people.

It’s the 21st century, and there are still a lot of people who believe in the flat earth theory.

It is estimated that few people will immediately believe the theory of global cooling. However, the Western Continent Alliance and North America, whose infrastructure is very backward, cannot wait any longer.

Once global cooling becomes a reality, areas with backward infrastructure will certainly not be able to withstand the long-term severe cold.

I don’t believe it now, and when global cooling is truly confirmed, it will be too late to improve infrastructure.

This is a dead end.

Du Lun was confused for a moment.

He doesn't know how to save the Western world? Because there are too many pig teammates, he does not believe that the Meteorological Research Institute of the Western Continent League will not discover this obvious trend.

But the other party was indifferent. It was obvious that they were planning to give up some people. For those large consortiums, global cooling and global warming would hardly change their interests.

Huge infrastructure requires a large investment of funds and resources, and these investments may be lost. Faced with this desperate situation, the capital forces of external power and internal power will only choose to fly away when disaster strikes, and will never burn themselves to illuminate others.

No wonder, the Western Continent Alliance has been making constant moves in North and West Africa recently.

Du Lun combined the current information and obviously guessed something.

Once global cooling becomes a foregone conclusion, the northern part of the Western Continent Alliance will become unsuitable for long-term human habitation, so a backup shelter is needed.

As for the shelter, it naturally needs to be clean and stable to ensure the luxurious life of those in the upper class.

Recently, Gaul's actions in West and North Africa have been in a rhythm of vacating the cage and replacing the birds. Duren had not found it strange before. After all, the West has been fighting and killing for decades.

Only when all the clues were connected, Du Lun could clearly see the truth in the fog.

After a hurried dinner, the three of them collected more information through various channels, which further proved Du Lun's guess.

For a while, they couldn't think of how to solve it. Naturally, the general trend cannot be reversed by one or two policies.

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