{"id":80225,"date":"2022-04-20T08:53:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T13:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=80225"},"modified":"2022-04-20T08:53:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T13:53:45","slug":"80225","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=80225","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost 50 Years Ago, Soylent Green Portrayed a Grim Future for 2022<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Soylent Green<\/em>:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the year 2022. Cumulative effects of overpopulation, pollution, and \u201cclimate catastrophe\u201d 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 \u201cglobal warming.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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 \u201crecycled protein\u201d is being distributed to the population.<\/p>\n

The movie\u00a0Soylent Green<\/em><\/a> was produced and filmed in 1972 and released in 1973. It is a futuristic tale of doom, describing life in the year 2022.<\/p>\n

We are living in that year, and things aren\u2019t 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 \u201cclimate activists,\u201d the climate itself is not a catastrophe when you look at real-world data.<\/p>\n

For example, March 2022 global temperatures\u00a0measured by satellite<\/a>\u00a0are 0.27\u00b0F (0.15\u00b0C) and\u00a0U.S. temperature<\/a>\u00a0measured by the\u00a0U.S. Climate Reference Network<\/a>, is just 0.38\u00b0F (0.21\u00b0C) above normal; nearly undetectable fractions of a degree, with little change measured in the United States over the past 17 years.<\/p>\n

And when we look at other real-word data, such as crop production and the overall health of the planet, we find things are even less like the predictions of the movie for 2022.<\/p>\n

Global Crop production is\u00a0actually up significantly<\/a>\u00a0according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture division. The\u00a0Earth has actually become greener<\/a>\u00a0according to NASA, thanks to increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. And,\u00a0air pollution is\u00a0down 50 percent or more<\/a>\u00a0since 1990, according to the Environmental Protection Agency\u00a0(EPA)<\/u>.<\/p>\n

The EPA added this note to their report: \u201cDuring this same period, the U.S. economy continued to grow, Americans drove more miles, and population and energy use increased.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the most significant climate related data in 2022 is the fact that \u201cclimate related deaths\u201d have plummeted since the movie came out and is now approaching zero. Using data from\u00a0the\u00a0International Disaster Database<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>climate scientist Bj\u00f8rn Lomborg found striking drops in the data. As Lomborg writes, \u201cIf we look at the death risk for an individual, the risk reduction is even bigger — dropped almost 99% since the 1920s.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two years ago, on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day,\u00a0there was much to celebrate<\/a>\u00a0about our present day due to improvements in our environment since 1970.<\/p>\n

In contrast,\u00a0Soylent Green<\/em>\u00a0portrayed a “climate catastrophe” and a grim future for 2022 due to climate change that hasn\u2019t manifested itself in a profoundly negative way. In fact, most of what we\u00a0experience today that could be considered a catastrophe is self-inflicted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Runaway inflation<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0energy restrictive policies<\/a>\u00a0enforced by the Biden administration\u00a0are the real catastrophes affecting Americans today.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost 50 Years Ago, Soylent Green Portrayed a Grim Future for 2022 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\u00a0Soylent Green: It\u2019s the year 2022. Cumulative effects of overpopulation, pollution, and \u201cclimate catastrophe\u201d have caused severe worldwide shortages … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-econuts","category-they-made-a-movie-about-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80226,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80225\/revisions\/80226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}