In 2011, Megatron melted the icecaps and flooded the world. Almost all coastal cities were flooded out, taking more than half the industrial base with them. And also more than half the best farm land. Amazonia was a shallow inland sea, with the island of Venezuela cut off from the Andes. Worse yet Europe had the port city of Paris, but lost Holland, Belgium, and Ireland. All that remained of Russia is the Ural Arpeggio. The worst hit of all was Asia where China lost most of its heartland, and India lost the Indus and Ganges river valleys. More than a billion people had no place left to live and work, or grow crops, and were forced to move for the duration of the flooding.