American Deluge

North America shortly after the start of the Flood in the Second Renaissance.

Where climate change had left so many nations fighting civil wars with the refugee crisis; the United States managed to act fast enough to avoid such a conflict within their borders. With the Refugee Relocation Act, the US Government began relocating the displaced to regions where the population density was traditionally low, and establishing administrative regions in areas where a significant amount of territory was either lost, or a culturally homogenized region was more isolated.

The Relocation Act, however, did little to stop the millions in the Gulf of Mexico who did not flee within their own country in time, to make their way to Northern Mexico and the other parts of the Gulf. This crisis was made worse by the consolidation of the Mexican Drug Cartels into a single organized entity that managed to completely detach Northern Mexico from the control of the local government. Raids by the Cartels have made it difficult to move the Americans stuck south of the Rio Grande, and may soon lead to the fall of the Mexican government as a whole.

In Canada, the Refugee Crisis lasted only a matter of weeks, as so little of their populated coastline was threatened. However, the Global Food Shortage, would lead to Quebec's creation of a local blocade of their borders to manage their own food supplies without having to ration for the rest of the country. Efforts to take advantage of the warming climate for agricultural development, have been opposed by a new radical green movement in British Columbia. Talk of secession in Alberta is also growing.

What became of North America: [link]