Africa

The entire African continent, with the exception of some coastal areas or deep river valley's, will remain above sea level even after the poles have melted. This would seem to place it in an enviable situation, especially in light of the moderate temperate climate the entire continent will enjoy in the new geography. This must be balanced by special circumstance Africa struggles with, which will become worse before they get better. Plagues similar to the Ebola virus will spread, under the influence of the continuous rains and drizzle that run for decades after the shift, to all parts of Africa, stopped only by the seashore. The Ebola virus and its cousins live in swamps, passed among the creatures that live there, and these creatures will find all of Africa to their liking during this continuous wet season. Where the earthquakes that devastate cities in industrial countries will have little effect on the primitive structures most Africans call home, crop failure will drive survivors to eat what they can find, and these meals will infect them. Soon all but a tiny fraction of the populace, those with natural immunity to Ebola type viruses, will be gone. Sociologically, much of Africa will suffer due to the pervading colonial attitude of corporate interests, a situation all of Africa suffers under. The shift will disrupt communications such that those interests, the raw force of self-service and greed, will start to rely on their own judgment, without controls. This drama of the dominant power structures attempting to stay on top of a diminishing food supply and any technological resources surviving the shift will take some years to play out fully. In the meantime, survivors of good heart are advised to stay away from supposedly civilized areas where such power struggles are playing out, remaining in the countryside and keeping a low profile so as to avoid attention.

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