This Is The Year Of Soylent Green

[g5000]

The iconic 1973 movie Soylent Green took place in the year 2022.

Soylent Green - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Soylent Green is a 1973 American ecological dystopian thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young and Edward G. Robinson in his final film role. Loosely based on the 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison, the film combines police procedural and science fiction genres, the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman and a dystopian future of dying oceans and year-round humidity, due to the greenhouse effect, resulting in pollution, poverty, overpopulation, euthanasia and depleted resources.

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By the year 2022, the cumulative effects of overpopulation, pollution and an apparent climate catastrophe have caused severe worldwide shortages of food, water and housing. There are 40 million people in New York City alone, where only the city's elite can afford spacious apartments, clean water and natural food (at horrendously high prices, with a jar of strawberry jam fetching $150). The homes of the elite are fortressed, with private security, bodyguards for their tenants, and usually include concubines (who are referred to as "furniture" and serve the tenants as slaves).

There is a company which has named itself after the food in the book. Solyent.com.

So how are we doing compared to the movie?

 

[JoeB131]

There is a company which has named itself after the food in the book. Solyent.com.

So how are we doing compared to the movie?

Well, here's the thing.

The premise of the movie was that earth had become so overpopulated that our food supplies were exhausted. And while the earth's population has nearly doubled, we seem to have plenty of food.

Another major plot point was that assisted suicide would be normal. We are nowhere near that yet.

Obviously, nobody is converting people into food. Not that human body would have that much nutritional value to start with. Most livestock is livestock because it doesn't take 18 years to mature to have enough meat.

 

[fncceo]

Mmmmm .... Soylent Green ....

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

The iconic 1973 movie Soylent Green took place in the year 2022.

Soylent Green - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Soylent Green is a 1973 American ecological dystopian thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young and Edward G. Robinson in his final film role. Loosely based on the 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison, the film combines police procedural and science fiction genres, the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman and a dystopian future of dying oceans and year-round humidity, due to the greenhouse effect, resulting in pollution, poverty, overpopulation, euthanasia and depleted resources.

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By the year 2022, the cumulative effects of overpopulation, pollution and an apparent climate catastrophe have caused severe worldwide shortages of food, water and housing. There are 40 million people in New York City alone, where only the city's elite can afford spacious apartments, clean water and natural food (at horrendously high prices, with a jar of strawberry jam fetching $150). The homes of the elite are fortressed, with private security, bodyguards for their tenants, and usually include concubines (who are referred to as "furniture" and serve the tenants as slaves).

There is a company which has named itself after the food in the book. Solyent.com.

So how are we doing compared to the movie?

Yes! I remember it well. With climate change, political and social upheavals that go with it, Covid deaths and disruptons to the economy, and the prospect of the collaps of the United States as a Constitutional Republic at the hands of Republican demigods it may not be far off. A Republican administration might well approve solyant green for consumption if the oligarchy would profit from it. But would people with Covid be used and if so, what are the health risks ? Would Republicans care?

 

[marvin martian]

Yes! I remember it well. With climate change, political and social upheavals that go with it, Covid deaths and disruptons to the economy, and the prospect of the collaps of the United States as a Constitutional Republic at the hands of Republican demigods it may not be far off. A Republican administration might well approve solyant green for consumption if the oligarchy would profit from it. But would people with Covid be used and if so, what are the health risks ? Would Republicans care?

^^^This is from the party that advocates killing children who aren't "perfect".

 

[fncceo]

Yes! I remember it well. With climate change, political and social upheavals that go with it, Covid deaths and disruptons to the economy, and the prospect of the collaps of the United States as a Constitutional Republic at the hands of Republican demigods it may not be far off. A Republican administration might well approve solyant green for consumption if the oligarchy would profit from it. But would people with Covid be used and if so, what are the health risks ? Would Republicans care?

[Insert weapons-grade eye-roll here]

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

^^^This is from the party that advocates killing children who aren't "perfect".

Says the angry person who has been proven to be full of shit at every turn

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

[Insert weapons-grade eye-roll here]

I saw my own brain!!

 

[22lcidw]

Yes! I remember it well. With climate change, political and social upheavals that go with it, Covid deaths and disruptons to the economy, and the prospect of the collaps of the United States as a Constitutional Republic at the hands of Republican demigods it may not be far off. A Republican administration might well approve solyant green for consumption if the oligarchy would profit from it. But would people with Covid be used and if so, what are the health risks ? Would Republicans care?

We will call it Soylent Blue though.

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

The iconic 1973 movie Soylent Green took place in the year 2022.

Soylent Green - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Soylent Green is a 1973 American ecological dystopian thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young and Edward G. Robinson in his final film role. Loosely based on the 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison, the film combines police procedural and science fiction genres, the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman and a dystopian future of dying oceans and year-round humidity, due to the greenhouse effect, resulting in pollution, poverty, overpopulation, euthanasia and depleted resources.

[snip]

By the year 2022, the cumulative effects of overpopulation, pollution and an apparent climate catastrophe have caused severe worldwide shortages of food, water and housing. There are 40 million people in New York City alone, where only the city's elite can afford spacious apartments, clean water and natural food (at horrendously high prices, with a jar of strawberry jam fetching $150). The homes of the elite are fortressed, with private security, bodyguards for their tenants, and usually include concubines (who are referred to as "furniture" and serve the tenants as slaves).

There is a company which has named itself after the food in the book. Solyent.com.

So how are we doing compared to the movie?

There are more insects we could eat in a million yrs. We'll make it

 

[g5000]

There are more insects we could eat in a million yrs. We'll make it

 

[whitehall]

Consuming human remains disguised as food? Are you serious?

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

Consuming human remains disguised as food? Are you serious?

You'll get used to it if you are hungry enough. As an alternative , you could fight to reverse climate change, if it's not to late

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

There are more insects we could eat in a million yrs. We'll make it

You'd be shocked to find out how many bugs and rodents' "stuff" are in premade foods, cosmetics, and candy. So having them crushed up and pressed into little green squares isn't really too far fetched from being reality.