Almost 50 Years Ago, Soylent Green Portrayed a Grim Future for 2022: Things aren’t anywhere near as bad as the movie portrayed

American Thinker ^ | 04/20/2022 | Anthony Watts

[SeekAndFind]

In anticipation of Earth Day 2022, it is a good time to reflect on the upcoming 50th anniversary of the release of the eco-apocalypse movie Soylent Green:

It’s the year 2022. Cumulative effects of overpopulation, pollution, and “climate catastrophe” have caused severe worldwide shortages of food, water, and housing. Scientists confirm oceanographic reports saying the oceans are dying. The food chain is disrupted. Food is becoming scarce, and the temperature is so hot that heat waves have become year-round thanks to climate change aka “global warming.”

Homeless people are everywhere; only half the workforce is employed while the other half is barely making it. Many people are illiterate and few factories are producing new goods.

The homes of the elite are barricaded, with private security. Only the elite can afford air conditioning. Strawberries are now a delicacy at $75 a quart. The situation with food has gotten so bad that people are being harvested off the streets and “recycled protein” is being distributed to the population.

The movie Soylent Green was produced and filmed in 1972 and released in 1973. It is a futuristic tale of doom, describing life in the year 2022.

We are living in that year, and things aren’t anywhere near as bad as the movie portrayed. While some of the items it touched on (self-inflicted thanks to COVID-19, green energy policy, inflation) might be considered climate-caused by “climate activists,” the climate itself is not a catastrophe when you look at real-world data.

For example, March 2022 global temperatures measured by satellite are 0.27°F (0.15°C) and U.S. temperature measured by the U.S. Climate Reference Network, is just 0.38°F (0.21°C) above normal; nearly undetectable fractions of a degree, with little change measured in the United States over the past 17 years.

[katana]

Soylent Green: The Climate nonsense aside (how are all those doomsday predictions looking fifty years on, and what does that say about the current crop of unscientific crap?) the social conditions portrayed are exactly where we’d be if Democrats had had an uninterrupted reign in office. And exactly what Fauci, Soros, et al are intentionally trying to create, an America brought down to Port Au Prince or Mogadishu levels.

[aquila48]

“It’s the year 2022. Cumulative effects of overpopulation, pollution, and “climate catastrophe” have caused severe worldwide shortages of food”

They couldn’t have been more wrong. The problem today is obesity not starvation.

[Vaduz]

Things aren’t anywhere near as bad as the movie portrayed.

Somewhere in Africa an unknown tribe picking the bones nod.

[M1903A1]

I had a past coworker who drank that stuff. He’d never heard of the movie.

[Elsie H]

The movie was more memorable for me because of Edward G. Robinson’s death scene. I was horrified that people would agree to be put to sleep and that there were facilities to do it. Since then, I’ve watched my father and in-laws struggle with Alzheimers and dementia and it doesn’t look like a bad way to go anymore.

[metmom]

True but the government we have today sure is working darned hard to get there.

[wbarmy]

And I mentioned this article and a co-worker says if the Simpsons didn’t lampoon it, it must not have been a good movie.

Google says that it was quoted three times in the Simpson’s.