Several viral posts have made the rounds on social media featuring the poster for Soylent Green with a tagline that reads: “People need it…It’s the year 2022. August 24, 2022.” While the first two ...
The 1970s was the golden age of eco-thrillers, films and books that imagined not-too-distant futures in which the environment was so badly damaged that life as we knew it had become impossible. The ...
In 1970, 20 million Americans participated in the first Earth Day. One of the more alarming predictions that day was from Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich, who foresaw a future in which “population ...
Another movie starring Charlton Heston, the 1973 classic Soylent Green is set in 2022 and predicts a world thrown off course by overpopulation, ecological disaster, and resource scarcity. Not a bad ...