Adventures on Mars, a new world

Earth has become over populated. Food and other essentials are in short supply. Crime is at a all time high. The solution was to colonize Mars.

The year is 2125 and the population on earth has reached almost 11 billion people. Farming and ranch land is being replaced by large housing towers. Most of these consisted of small apartments that had to share a bathroom. Showers were limited to four minutes and if you were lucky, you got slightly warm water. This is where most people lived unless they were rich. Even they had to deal with food shortages and power blackouts. All this has led to major food shortages. Wars are being fought not for land or power but for food and resources. The crime rate is higher than it's ever been. Looters and gangs ran ramped. It got so bad that a law was passed that allowed business owners to hire armed guards and could shoot to kill anyone stealing from them. it was decided anyone convicted of a crime and sentenced to more than thirty years in prison would be an automatic death penalty. No matter how severe the laws and penalties got the crime rate never slowed down. To slow down the population growth down one child per family was passed and you could only have a child if you could get a permit from your government. Only a small number of permits were issued each year. Anyone having a child without a permit is sent to prison. Until the population dropped back to under 8 billion nothing was going to change. Nobody drove cars anymore because gas was $18.00 a gallon, a pound of hamburger meat was $32.00 $3.00 for a slice of bread. For those with electric cars it costs almost $200.00 to charge them. things here in Texas are bad but not as bad as cities like los Angeles.