New Earth City, 17 July Entry 1

Two months ago, almost to the day, my wife and I moved to New Earth City--the go-to station in the Earth Ring. Everyone in the nine colonies says it's the best station in the Ring to live in, which is good because, well, everyone's going to want to live there very soon.

Why do I say this? I wish there was an easy answer. The best way I can put it is this:

All nine colonies in the Earth Ring, including all of their city stations and sub stations, rely on one source for energy--the sun. There's a problem with putting all of your reliance on one source of energy--if that one source goes dry, what do you do?

Am I a scientist? Or some sort of expert in solar power?

I am neither. I am simply a man who pays attention to the signs.

The world as we know it will be ending soon.

But don't worry, we've survived this kind of thing before and we'll survive this...

...at least, some of us will.