Author's Note

This still developing story is set in the same world as John Michael Greer's "Star's Reach" Star's Reach - Chapters 1 to 9 (bottom to top)  but 40 to 60 years before - and over 400 years after today.

To quote the author of the seminal original:

More than four centuries have passed since the industrial civilization of our own time stumbled to a halt under the self-inflicted burdens of peak oil, global warming, and drastic environmental change. Now, in the dark age landscape of deindustrial America, an unlikely band of seekers begins a quest for a place out of legend, where humankind may have talked with other worlds -- a place called Star's Reach.

The underlying assumption in this fan fiction is that just one society - the various nations of Scandinavia - has maintained social and political stability as Climate Chaos and resource depletion destroy the civilization of today. The Scandinavians were able to do this by consistently making rational decisions in their long term self interest during difficult times - plus a bit of luck.

"The Union of Scandinavia and Antarctica" explores the impact on a future society of repeatedly making rational decisions - and following through with them - even in the most difficult of times.

How much better will our future be if, in the face of disruption and horrible stresses, we respond with logical analysis and sane actions ? And if we avoid deliberately destroying our societies when times get tough ?