Below Zero

EMERGENCE: BURIED ALIVEâ€"The United States population was barely thirty thousand hopeful souls, alive after being trapped under hundreds of feet of ice during a century-long ice age. Three separate enclaves had survived using guts, brains and great desire. Then the ice began to melt. New America had to recreate the past. RECLAMATION: FREE AT LAST…to rebuild. They needed energy to replace the frozen wood they had used for decades. A way to reverse plastics into oil and gas was formulated. They needed the seeds from Noah’s Ark, far away in Norway’s Arctic Sea. Mining old plastics from landfills and sailing an ancient nuclear submarine are just a few of the gigantic hurdles they had to conquer to replenish New America.