It really was inevitable that some climate cultists would go down this road
Climate change, chaos, and cannibalism
In the 70s an often-forgotten film predicted climate change, chaos, and cannibalism in America’s not-so-distant future.
Well, we’re underachieving on the cannibalism, but if you count the coronavirus as “chaos,” we’re doing fine on the other two.
Soylent Green, starring Charlton Heston, premiered nationwide on May 9, 1973, to mixed reviews. In a year when The Exorcist and The Sting lapped the field, its box office take did not make the top 25 films.
Set in a hungry, desperate New York City beset by pollution, overpopulation, and a climate where the temperature stays above a humid 90° F, life is so awful that euthanasia is not only legal, it’s often welcomed.
The year of this future hellscape? 2022. (snip to end)
The movie may have sounded ominous warnings about climate change on filthy Manhattan streets, but it also depicted young women as “furniture” at the disposal of the rich.
Clean air and water, overconsumption, resource exhaustion and other 21st century themes abound in this clumsy, dated film.
Oh, and did Mr. Heston ever figure out the secret to Soylent Green’s high-protein success? To paraphrase the 20th Century swamp philosopher Pogo, “We have met the entrée, and he is us.”
Yes, as Heston shrieks at movie’s end, “Soylent Green is people!”
So, we should all apparently get ready for cannibalism next year, folks. Because doomsday cultists ran across a movie.
