This is a world that woke up late to climate change. Efforts to broker a post-Kyoto
agreement faltered, and instead different regions of the world pursued their own
priorities. But as the environmental impacts began to worsen, the world started to
come together. In 2017 a global pact was signed, but even so the global political
community was forced into reactive strategies. Governments began to rely on
hard policy to change how businesses worked and how people lived their lives.
As time went on, the state took a stronger and stronger role, rationalising whole
industry sectors to reduce their climate change impacts, and even putting
‘Carbon Monitors’ in people’s homes to watch their energy use.