Australia itself had become the self-proclaimed organic country. It traded with the other continents for water rights to keep alive its enormous farms where the Simpson Desert once had been. The Nuclear War had changed the climate in Australia most. The grasslands and rainforests of Queensland were reduced to semi-deserts and arid wastelands. What few species that could be saved were shipped off to the international zoo in Greenland where they had built a “Noah’s Arkâ€? zoo. In the fifty years after the Nuclear War, almost 25% of the world’s species, particularly in Australia and Antarctica, became extinct. The zoo claimed to hold at least 10 of every endangered or semi-endangered animal between the poles. This was possible only because marine life ceased to exist not only because of the Great Oil Spill of 2376 but also because of the belated effects of Global Warming. The Ark Zoo was relocated to the Earth’s moon soon after.