The year 2042, the UK is now a tropical region. Floods, fires, storms, civil unrest are common. In the late 20s A series of high-level corporate individuals, billionaires, lobbyists, and politicians were assassinated by autonomous weapons built by climate activists. This system assessed the unit of human suffering and calculated the minimum amount of people that were to be targeted to save the most lives. It was the trolly problem but on a global scale. In the resulting power vacuum the perpetrators became the heroes in this new narrative. A move to a circular economy, of reuse and adaptation to the changing environment. Before We Disappear follows the two people behind the purges of the 2020s, and their personal fallout.