Lloyd, Saci

In 2017, two years after England introduces carbon dioxide rationing to combat climatic change, Laura chronicles her first year at a London university as natural disasters and political upheaval disrupt her studies.

In 2017, two years after England introduces carbon dioxide rationing to combat climatic change, eighteen-year-old Laura chronicles her first year at a London university as natural disasters and political upheaval disrupt her studies.

In 2015, when England becomes the first nation to introduce carbon dioxide rationing in a drastic bid to combat climate change, sixteen-year-old Laura documents the first year of rationing as her family spirals out of control.

With energy wars flaring across the globe, oil prices gone crazy, regular power cuts, and soldiers keeping the Outsiders in check, Hunter, one of the privileged of society, is fascinated by the Outsiders, so when he meets Uma he is quickly drawn into her circle of the poor and disenfranchised.

Sixteen-year-old Laura journals as her family begins to fall apart after futuristic England begins to ration carbon dioxide due to global warming, and she longs for the days of normalcy.