Do you give any merit to the premise in the movie " Soylent Green" from 1973? Do you feel like that is close to the way things will be, even if not in the 2020's but further along down the road? Will the world ever really get that populated?
2006-07-23 08:41:22 · 11 answers · asked by Kitty g 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
None at all. As technology advances, we will discover more and new ways to feed even more people. A farmer nowadays can feed about 120 people. 100 years ago, he could feed maybe ten.
"Soylent Green" had as its premise that man was swallowing up the planet and we'd all starve in 50 years. The people who make these dire predictions are always wrong. Ted Danson said in 1985 that if we didn't get on the stick and clean up the oceans right quick, we'd all be dead by 1995. I don't know about you, but I think I'm still alive. The people who make these crazy predictions are anti-capitalists. They want us to live in some wacko agrarian society similar to what Sir Thomas More wrote about in "Utopia." Truth is, things like that can't happen because people will never share the work to share the rewards. Some will always slack and expect to ride the dinner table for free. We call them Democrats today. Forget the doom-and-gloom scenarios for the future. The best is yet to come. You ain't seen nothin' yet!
2006-07-23 08:44:47 · answer #1 · answered by christopher s 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, not necessarily. Another possibility, besides overpopulation, could be a plague of some sort, or some sort of catastrophe that kills off more than half of the population. AIDS could very well be this plague (albeit a slower one than the Black Death in the 1300's). You have to remember that Soylent Green was made well before AIDS entered public consciousness. And don't forget the possibility of the avian flu. Also, the weather's getting quite a bit wilder, what with the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 (well, okay, that's not exactly weather, but you know what I mean), and Katrina in 2005.
If neither of these things happen, only then will extreme overpopulation become an issue.
2006-07-23 08:51:59 · answer #2 · answered by Qchan05 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That movie was a trip and 3/4's but I think with technology now a days, by then we will have perfected frankenfood (i.e. genetically engineered food) and won't need to resort to cannibalism.Another very real possibility is the subtle replacement of food for enjoyment and it being a case of the 'food' being strictly nourishment.Along the lines of the 'food' the crew is eating in the first Matrix movie.
2006-07-23 08:56:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heck, I'm eating people now. Needs salt most of the time, and some cajun, but it's pretty tender.
2006-07-23 08:45:33 · answer #4 · answered by ihatestupidclowns 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it won't happen in the legal sense. Scarry thought though..that was a trippy movie.
2006-07-23 08:46:33 · answer #5 · answered by maynerdswife 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how can it not? the earth only has so much room, and people multiply. now im wondering about the ingredients of spam, and vienna sausages.
2006-07-23 08:49:34 · answer #6 · answered by chris l 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No,we would have severe birth control before that would happen.
2006-07-23 08:47:20 · answer #7 · answered by crystal89431 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may get that corrupt! There is plenty of arable land
2006-07-23 08:45:46 · answer #8 · answered by Bear Naked 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
eww gross!! i hope not. but u know.. there are ppl NOW that reaally do eat ppl.. i mean i heard thats true, but yea.. lol
2006-07-23 08:44:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Don't worry about it. I'm not worried about it,cause I'll be dead!
2006-07-23 08:47:20 · answer #10 · answered by sumrtanman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋