All across the United States of America
After the event, out of crisis
The physical scars of the Yellowstone supervolcano eruption would take years to heal, but they propelled global governments to action.
What had once been an impotent climate change conference was transformed into a multinational organization with actual monitoring and enforcement power. The planet’s only hope was that it wasn’t too late.
The eruption and the crisis that followed also propelled transformation in the US government. As Milt predicted, despite the herculean efforts of the president and vice president, it was three years before the requisite number of states filed their applications to convene an Article V constitutional convention.
The convention was eventually scheduled for what would be the second year of President Stakley’s second term in office.
As was fitting, the convention was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. President Stakley addressed the opening and closing sessions. Unlike the first and only other convention of its type, in 1787, it did not result in a new constitution. But it did produce a set of amendments to the existing time-honored and long-cherished document that mainstream Americans knew in their hearts was necessary to reunite the United States.
And so it would be: the beginning of the beginning.