这是公元2037年,即距今50年后,世界各地面临的各种现象:洪水威胁着欧洲;北美东部的居民已陷入齐腰深的大水中;白内障、疱疹和肝炎在亚洲、南美和地中海沿岸蔓延;癌症患者高达5亿之多;而同时北美中西部和中亚地区又遭受着干旱的袭击,小麦产量减少1/10;海洋中的虾蟹已绝迹。 This is the year 2037, 50 years from now, all sorts of phenomena around the world: floods threaten Europe; residents of eastern North America have fallen into massively deep water; cataracts, herpes and hepatitis in Asia, South America and the Mediterranean Spread along the coast; up to 500 million people have cancer; at the same time, another drought hit central and western North America and Central Asia, with wheat yield reduced by a tenth; shrimps and crabs in the ocean have disappeared.