This is a book that says "what if everything changes because nothing changes?" There's no oil. There's very little ecosystem left. There's been a couple of plagues. And clean food -- calories -- is so hard to come by that when a new fruit shows up in the Thai marketplaces, it's immediate cause for interest by the corporate research who suspects that the Thai have a hidden seedbank and a top ranked geneticist to bring species back from the dead. And they want to own those species.