Are there any FICTION books just as good or better than film(
Tv or Movie)
2006-07-02 17:08:14 · 15 answers · asked by Cliffather 2 in Environment
You ask for the “fictional film best describes the possible "worst case scenario" involving the environment?” “Are there any FICTION books just as good or better than film (TV or Movie)”
The movie “The Day After Tomorrow” has to be the best movie in this category. The movie deals with “the Gulf Stream oceanic current, which normally pumps warm tropical waters from the Gulf of Mexico throughout the North Atlantic Ocean, suddenly collapses. This cataclysmic change rapidly sends the Northern Hemisphere into an abrupt quick-freeze… with apocalyptic results.
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This movie was created from a book “The Coming Global Superstorm.” Written by Art Bell (Coast to Coast Radio Host) and “Whitley Strieber”. If your looking for a good book this is the best!
Bell, Art and Strieber, Whitley. The Coming Global Superstorm. Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster, Inc.) New York, 2000. ISBN 0-671-04190-8. 255 PP.
2006-07-02 17:49:53 · answer #1 · answered by andrew h 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't seen or heard of any movies that I would consider even passably accurate. Day After Tomorrow is often cited but it is impossibly far fetched. The changed depicted could not possibly happen on the time scale shown and are more extreme than is reasonably possible, so it cannot plausibly be considered a worst case scenario. It is based on a plausible climate change phenomenon, the stalling of the gulf stream, which would cause severe effects that would be felt quickly, that is to say on a 10 year time frame, but the movie for dramatic purposes greatly exaggerates both the quickness and the severity of the impact.
The several asteroid strike disaster movies are much more reasonable although not strictly speaking environmental disasters in the sense I think you mean.
An excellent book I strongly recommend is Kim Stanley Robinson's Forty Signs of Rain. It is the first of a new trilogy on global warming that he is working on the second in the series has been released in hard cover and is called Fifty Degrees Below. Robinson is a fantastic and very literary author in the science fiction genre.
2006-07-02 19:12:24 · answer #2 · answered by Engineer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Day After Tomorrow and a good factual movie/book would be 2005-2006 World Wide Disasters
2006-07-02 17:15:47 · answer #3 · answered by DaGrimReaper 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By far, "The Day After Tomorrow" best describes one possible scenario involving the environment. The movie was actually based upon a global climate change model run for the US government.
2006-07-02 17:15:21 · answer #4 · answered by chingasa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Day After Tomorrow
2006-07-02 17:29:53 · answer #5 · answered by Desouza 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a book I once read called "feed" about a world where consumerism had become so infultraited people have probes implanted in their brains which just bombard the brain with ads. It somewhat extreme and is more set AFTER the natural environment has been pooched, but it is still something that could happen. I apologize if I was OT.
2006-07-03 10:59:52 · answer #6 · answered by fuentejus 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most definitely "The Day After Tomorrow"
2006-07-03 12:13:59 · answer #7 · answered by Lola 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say VOLCANO with Tommy lee Jones. A volcano erupting next to a hospital is very frighting if you were there. And what if nobody blew up that building? Bye bye you. It involves one of the wost natural disasters known to man. that is my movie worst case scenario.
2006-07-02 17:16:54 · answer #8 · answered by Walters Warrior 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Soylent Green
2006-07-03 06:56:17 · answer #9 · answered by Cindy in Bama 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Day After Tomorrow! Awesome movie- my friend is convinced that it is really starting to happen...
2006-07-02 17:12:56 · answer #10 · answered by K8 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋