Short-Sight

By 2040, the oceans of the world are mostly covered in plastics. This includes the familiar floating trash islands roaming the oceans but, more importantly, it also includes the pervasive microplastics that are invisible to the naked eye. It is these microplastics that have covered the vast majority of the surface of the oceans.

There have been worldwide droughts because ocean water is not evaporating as it should to create rain. Eventually, important ocean currents collapse, causing norther...