![]() Furthermore, all of the countries and continents are rubble, destroyed during the war. However, Manhattan and America's coastline are somehow completely fine. Artistic License Geography: Apparently, among other things, World War Three caused the ice caps to melt and now everything but America is underwater.It would be easy for the geneticists to reverse the changes after people started dying. Furthermore, the nice thing about genetic engineering is that it's almost always reversible, since there's always a copy of the original genome floating around somewhere.The book can't seem to decide if the cause for the Depopulation Bomb is a virus or genetic engineering, which are two very different things.This is especially egregious because the reason for the shortened lifespans is a virus - women, having an extra X chromosome, would have more genetic material to copy from and would therefore be less vulnerable to a virus altering their genome. ![]() ![]() Men outlive women, which is the reverse of what is biologically inclined to happen.Tropes used in The Chemical Garden Trilogy include: ![]()
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