On the positive side, the climate situation has largely stabilized, radiation is way down in areas where people weren’t deliberately dickish with cobalt-salted weapons, a rich variety of new species created by radiation mutations are expanding into emptied niches in those cases they didn’t turn out horribly unfit, the ocean ecology has recovered to the extent a real draw-down of excess CO2 is starting, and the current intelligent life forms are at least few enough in number to not do too much damage (yet)). And then there are all the new mutated animals and plants that have popped up: some, like the giant frogs, aren’t too bad, but the giant rats that have taken up the space previously occupied by large canine predators are just nasty. The situation was not helped by various biological weapons targeted at food crops mutating into forms with a more variegated diet.Large scale die-offs of vegetation led to increased soil erosion, with heavy increases in rainfall in some areas speeding things downstream even faster, leading to further expansion of desert and “badland” zones. The tree of life has been pruned, by massive radioactive fallout, global temperature rise continuing for nearly a century after humanity suffered from Civilizationus Interruptus, a more temporary but still severe increase in radiation due to ozone damage, and the chemical damage from innumerable burning cities, factories, and chemical depots either deliberately targeted by war planners or just too close to other atomic targets. OTOH, the math to prove this the case is too complicated for any Ape society to calculate, so it’s probably for the best if space travel comes along soon). (Complicated gravitational interactions will probably at some point lead to a rock of at least dinosaur-killing size running into the Earth, but probably not for some millennia yet. Fortunately, most of the Moon was blasted away from the Earth, leading to a cloud of large asteroids preceding Earth in its orbit, but enough pieces hit the planet to cause the Seven Years Winter and drop the human and ape population by another 90%). They’re a result of the explosion of the _second_ Alpha-Omega bomb, the one located in the Moon base, as a result of the desperate struggle of surviving Astronauts and Cosmonauts for the very limited resource base remaining on the Moon. Deserts have generally expanded, the surviving jungles have expanded in some places but died out in others, and the shore ecosystems have undergone rapid and cataclysmic change with the sudden loss of all tides save the Solar ones. It’s a rather different planet than ours, with raised sea levels, no north Polar ice cap, and, most notably, no Moon. The year 4,029 (Common Era) is approaching on Earth, although most terrestrials are unaware of this and others would dispute the date.