Showing results for "Oxygen" in Dystopian

In 2137, each person is fitted with nanotechnology that measures every breath they take. Each person has an oxygen quota of 10 million litres. When they have used this up, they receive a letter telling them they have less than a day to live. But the rich people in Luxor City can buy Blue Oxygen–an oxygen replacement that does not use up a person’s quota. Jake thinks this system is unfair.

Spannend, informativ und absolut furchterregend. Der Thriller zur Klimakrise von Bestseller-Autor Andreas Brandhorst. Es hätte alles so schön werden können. Durch die Förderung regenerativer Energiequellen und den Einsatz neuer Technologien zeichnet sich eine Lösung der Klimakrise bereits am Horizont ab. Doch dann macht die Meeresbiologin Laura Lombardi eine beunruhigende Entdeckung: Das Plankton in den Weltmeeren, das für einen großen Teil der globalen Sauerstoffproduktion verantwortlich ist, verliert die Fähigkeit zur Fotosynthese.

From the author of the best-selling and award-winning travel memoir Falling Uphill comes a prophetic dystopian novel. What if global warming isn’t the problem, but a symptom of something much worse? Orphaned as a boy by a natural disaster that suffocated his village in Cameroon, Mykelti has dedicated his life to ensuring it never happens again. Now a renowned paleoclimatologist, he discovers the greatest mass extinctions in Earth’s history were caused by cataclysmic oxygen depletion. And it has begun again, this time due to humanity’s rampant industrialization.

In 2112, dystopia is upon us, and the United Nations Authority is trying to stop energy and technology behemoth GIATCOM from destroying society once and for all. At the vortex of this futuristic struggle is 21st-century inventor Dr. Ben Richards, who created a way to harness wind power, a clean and renewable energy that could have changed the course of humanity if he hadn’t died under mysterious circumstances.