>>5995029I am an American who hasn't gone anywhere in Scandinavia, so I apologize for any severe misrepresentation of the region. I did make the conscious choice that Europe has a much hotter, wetter climate than it naturally is. Germany in particular has shifted much closer to the biome of a rainforest, though with its naturally occurring flora, hence why I always described the trees to be so massive and casting such great dense shade. Finland in this era in comparison has a biome more similar to the British Isles, gloomy and rainy and cold but not very. Regions like the Middle East are almost totally unlivable without major cooling infrastructure due to extreme heat.
As for the biodiversity, much of that which was endangered by human hands has had the chance to come back as it has been a thousand years since the collapse happened - though creatures such as polar bears never stood a chance to hundreds of nuclear bombs exploding in the atmosphere above the north pole and rapidly melting what little remained the ice caps. I am also familiar with the effects of (particularly Siberian) permafrost melting, like land collapses and ancient strains of anthrax being unleashed on an unwitting population. Fun times up there for the hundred years after it hit the fan.
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