Aftermath is a 2010 Canadian-American documentary television series created by History Canada and produced by Cream Productions.
Aftermath consists of thought experiments looking at what would happen to Earth if extremely distant events and changes occurred in the present.
Alarms in oil rigs sound as pipe pressure plummets, leading employees and chemists around the globe to discover the bizarre situation as it unfolds.
All international transportation is grounded, including logistics, meaning resources such as steel, food, medical supplies, and trash are not being moved.
Famine and drug-resistant infections threaten death, while many begin to migrate as food shipments come every second day.
Eventually, lithium supplies begin to run out, but balancing this with biofuel production means humanity is able to prosper once again.
The governments of the world attempt to cope at first by ordering the construction of gigantic high rise apartment complexes.
However, the often outdated public works systems cannot handle this vastly increased load; bridges break and sewers fail, leading to contamination of the water supply.
A population crash begins, resulting in the die-off of billions of people due to the carrying capacity being exceeded.
[6][7] This episode hypothesizes a scenario where the rotation of the Earth begins slowing dramatically, eventually coming to a complete stop.
The first signs of the developing incident are that GPS satellites become desynchronised with Earth's reducing speed, causing discrepancies on the ground.
With less centrifugal force generated by Earth's rotation, the equatorial bulge begins to disappear, and water starts moving towards the poles.
The massive friction generated from this process triggers great quantities of powerful earthquakes, including in locations which had never seen the phenomena before.
Humans and numerous other animal species start suffering from sleep deprivation as their bodies cannot properly work in a day longer than 60 hours.
Eventually, the Earth stops spinning altogether and its position becomes fixed with respect to the background stars, and as a result still experiences a day-night cycle synonymous with an entire year.
A team of scientists set sail for the supercontinent to explore and study it, but harsh storms near the equator wreck their boat and wash the survivors ashore, where they face an uncertain future.
Survivors living in the Midwestern United States are safe from flooding and have sufficient air pressure to sustain human habitability, but in the new stable climate of the still Earth, whose axis remains tilted, resulting in different areas of the planet experiencing permanent seasonal conditions depending on their location during the six-month days, little to no precipitation occurs, putting the people at great risk; additionally, because the electricity supply has collapsed due to the flooding, the survivors are unable to desalinate the oceans for water for several years.
All snow and ice on Earth melts, causing sea levels to rise by more than 200 feet (61 m), submerging coastal cities.
Anything made of plastic or other synthetic materials melts, and concrete deteriorates as the water inside it evaporates explosively, resulting in buildings collapsing into dust.
The Sun eventually enters its red giant phase as the last of its hydrogen is consumed, and temperatures at its core reach the point where the helium begins to fuse.
The episode ends with the survivors establishing new settlements on the moons of the gas giant planets, which now lie within the Sun's habitable zone.