La Tombola - Prologue. Prologue

It could no longer be ignored, the naysayers had no further arguments, rationalizations, or excuses. Unfettered, unchecked population growth combined with stunning advances in medical science, placed an unsupportable strain on a fragile planet’s resources. Inevitably, competition for those resources led to small scale fracases that grew exponentially into wider spheres of continental conflicts.

Nationalistic societies whose cultures demanded the greatest, the latest, technological doodad’s, in the ultimate quest of self-absorption, simply refused to understand the havoc they were wreaking on the dying ecology of an overwhelmed planet.

To a small cadre of scientists, the writing was on the wall. The evidence when presented left little room for doubt. Under the strictest of secrecy, shielded from the major corporate interests and press, Operation Plimoth Plantation was born.