I am a science/speculative fiction writer who is writing a series on these issues. My first book in the series The Burning Years was published in 2017. I am working on the next four books. Add the effects of weather modification programs to this end of the world scenario, and there is even more trouble for us ahead.

I imagine all of this dystopia happening off page, so in my books I focus on describing how a small group of humans will survive using advanced science and technology in underground cities. And yes there will be a big brother world government. However as in most repressed societies a small band of young scientists rebel and find an energy source that our ancient ancestors used, and which UFO’s currently use to move inter and intra dimensionally — zero point energy. (These aliens won’t save us — sorry we’re far too primitive culturally and socially). This source will be lent to us however under specific terms, as we re-start life on the surface in Alaska where, in my book, there are now alligators and palm trees (previously the perma frost there has released deadly bacteria but we are past that point and I don’t go into it).

I am far less interested in dystopia and far more intrigued by the science and technology that will get a small fraction of us out of the hole we are currently digging for ourselves. Check our Dr. Rachel Armstrong and proto-cells and my website theburningyears.squarespace.com.

Yes we do have colonies on Mars and Europa in my books, but they aren’t critical to our surivival here on earth-just in finding the DNA we need to reconstitute one of our ancient ancestors from the stars. With his help we contace some ET’s who agree to help us, but have some strict rules about the use of nuclear weapons and energy. Also they don’t want to interract with us either because we’re so primitive.

The books delve into the quantum world as well, and we do learn about a parallel universe where copies of ourselves adopted Tesla’s approach to energy — ether and flourish there. Additionally we learn that time is all relative.

Anyway my hope is that a small band of humans from Earth will survive, and if we do, we’ll make some progress towards a more enlightened society based on the health of our whole organism, rather than like now the individuals within it.

I’m currently researching the fourth book where I’m thinking about various ideas for a post apocalyptic society — but we’ve a long way to go since human nature is still Darwinian and I’m unsure how we successfully overcome this. It’s this biological trait which, despite our graps of fairly advanced science and technology, has led us to where we are today.