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Site: http://www.viabilityindex.com/

Number: [[Year_Zero_Numbers#24.606.101|24.606.101]]

Background Text: [[Year_Zero_Banned_Media#The Simple Art of Murder|The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler ]] ==Discovery==

==SummaryContent ==Viability Index is a real estate guide for . Showing cities affected by the "climate change," this site offers advice on how to sell your property in that area or whether or not to invest there. Each city is scored according to climate, toxicity, economic outlook, your neighbors, and long-term outlook, resulting in the viability index for that city." Its The higher the number, the better the quality of life. The portents are grim; every city depicted is wracked by some kind of disaster on a regular basis. Cities are getting hotter. Alaska is temperate. Mexico City is "hell on earth." Los Angeles and New Orleans both have index scores of 0. The site is darkly humorous. For example, the entry for Philadelphia, which in Year Zero has become incredibly overcrowded due to people moving from more coastal locations, shows a picture of a pink flamingo in front of the Liberty Bell. Each city has "The Facts," a brief description of problems with the city, as every location depicted (even those currently or constantly at war) includes and "The Spin," some lines of spin to help entice for potential buyers. Even Lagos, Nigeria, even the lowest-rated in city on the website site (rated 0.4 in a system with 4 at the average), which is while described as lethally hot, lawless, and squalid, has the silver lining of "Land is cheap, though." Oddly enough, the LA dirty bombs have happened already, so the Los Angeles page is n/a for both The Facts and very affordableThe Spin and has a viability index of 0.0. New Orleans also has a viability index of 0, presumably because it (along with most of southern Louisiana) disappeared under the ocean years before Year Zero.

This is Interestingly the first Year Zero website to link Viability index links to a modern-day, Year -15 websitewebsites. The page for Charlotte, North Carolina, among them includes a link to [http://www.geo.arizona.edu/dgesl/research/other/climate_change_and_sea_level/sea_level_rise/northeast/slr_usane_a.htm an environmental website describing animation depicting the effects impact of sea levels rising water levels on the United States and ]. Pages for several other sites describing the cities link to descriptions of environmental concerns , hinting that the climate change problems of other countriesYear Zero have their genesis in current weather phenomenon.