I saw The Road and It Comes At Night pretty quickly after each other. Both incredibly disturbing in how possible and real it all is. Any other films that portray the incoming environmental collapse and/or societal decay?
Children of Men
It’s not exactly about an eco disaster but an impending doom just like it and how people would handle it in our capitalist world. Mass unemployment, crime and violence, heavy police state, feeling surreal going to work a normal job like the world isn’t ending etc.
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The lack of an effective disciplinary system has not, to say the least, been compensated for by an increase in student self-motivation. Students are aware that if they don’t attend for weeks on end, and/or if they don’t produce any work, they will not face any meaningful sanction. They typically respond to this freedom not by pursuing projects but by falling into hedonic (or anhedonic) lassitude: the soft narcosis, the comfort food oblivion of Playstation, all-night TV and marijuana.
Not so fun fact, pregnancies decrease due to pollution and warm weather, so Global Warming/Climate Change will bring down birth rates generally.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/climate-change-air-pollution-investigation-study
I don’t buy the reasoning that people aren’t having kids because they’re broke. Poor people have way more kids than bougies. Honestly it seems like the poorer you get the more kids you have.
