SOYLENT GREEN:
A half century ago, the 1973 movie, "Soylent Green," looked at what life would be like in the far off future of the year 2022.
We have now arrived at that far off future. What did the movie get right about us today?
Most of all, it got the devastation of climate change right. Here's what was said about 2022 in the movie's press release book:
In the 1973 press book, the film’s technical consultant, Frank R. Bowerman, president of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, said, “I am of the firm conviction that uncontrolled population expansion and its concomitant pollution of the air and the seas is the gravest problem facing mankind. A polluted, overpopulated world must result in a physical deterioration of life as we know it. I believe that our sources of food are waning, that our seas are dying, that our air is being poisoned, that our mineral resources are being exploited far beyond the natural replacement process. There is still time to reverse the trend. With action. The alternative is that ‘Soylent Green’ will be more than a warning. It could become the epitaph for mankind’s gravestone.”
Fifty years later........ more true than ever!
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