OH MY GOD! SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!
Soylent Green is the kind of movie the UN probably likes a whole lot. Other dystopian sci-fi movies tend to ocus on ideological decay and oppression; Soylent Green is about a realistic and therefore chilling possible future. It's not privacy or ideals that are oppressed and regulated in Soylent Green, it's food. The one thing humans absolutely need. As the human population grows, the resources dwindle. Soylent Green is what happens when there's nothing left, but billions of people to feed. It's an extension of modern issues: overpopulation, pollution, abuse of resources, oppression of the impoverished...etc. The issue is the fundamental human right: the right to life. It's twenty minutes in the future, the end of the road which we've already halfway run. That makes it extremely frightening, and perhaps more effective than other pessimistic sci-fi movies of its type.
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If global warming progressed to the extremes, would "overpopulation, pollution, abuse of resources, oppression of the impoverished...etc." happen?
ReplyDeleteGlobal warming would at least result in there being less land for humans to occupy, which would result in the displacement of entire coastal regions and cause massive congestion in inland areas. That in itself could cause a whole mess of problems; nature can't support too many people crammed into one region. Pretty soon we'd run out of room for lateral expansion and we'd have two choices: either we could look to the stars, or build multi-layered cities.
ReplyDeleteEither way, the landscape of the future will be vastly different from the one we have now. Especially considering that California is one of the most influential and heavily-populated states in the USA, and it's right on the coastline. Millions of people will be displaced when this region goes under, except there'll be nowhere to go.
It's a problem.