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Site: http://www.viabilityindex.com/
Number: [[Year_Zero_Numbers#24.6.1|24.6.1]] ==Discovery==
Viability Index is scrambled in line code on different localized US and UK versions of the [[Year Zero]] CD booklets as well as a flier from the OSR LA meeting. One or two pieces are missing.
[[Image:Viability index.jpg|Compiled lines from US/UK CD booklets and OSR LA meetup flier]]
==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. 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 0.3 4 in a system with 4 at the average), which is while described as lethally hot, lawless, and squalid, and very affordablehas the silver lining of "Land is cheap, though." This is the first Year Zero website to link to a modern-day, Year -15 websites. The page for Charlotte, North Carolina, 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 animation depicting the impact of sea levels rising]. Pages for several other cities link to descriptions of environmental concerns, hinting that the climate change problems of Year Zero have their genesis in current weather phenomenon.
This is the first Year Zero website to link to a modern-day, Year -15 website, among them an environmental website describing == Number ==[[Year_Zero_Numbers#24.6.1|24.6.1]] found on the effects right side of rising water levels on the United States and several other sites describing the environmental concerns of other countriespage, next to "VI Scores" explanation.
[[Category:World of Year Zero]]
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