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Mad Max To Solarpunk To Last Of Us: How Climate Disaster Culture Evolves

A member of the ''Wasteland Warriors,'' an acting group that has set up a post-apocalyptic scene in a section of the festival grounds at Wacken Open Air that springs from their imagination, celebrates to metal music.
A member of the ''Wasteland Warriors,'' an acting group in a post-apocalyptic, heavy-metal music scene at the Wacken Open Air festival. Axel Heimken/ZUMA

Eco-disaster fiction has changed since Soylent Green, one of Hollywood’s first eco-disaster films, came out in 1973; there has been an evolution from catastrophic fatalism to a certain optimism, with TV series like The Last Of Us.

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How On Earth Are We Going To Feed 11 Billion People?

In a famine-plagued region of Ethiopia
In a famine-plagued region of Ethiopia Kay Nietfeld/DPA via ZUMA

PARIS — New York City. 2022. The Big Apple is packed — with 44 million inhabitants — and roasting. Average temperatures are in excess of 30ºC. The metropolis is enveloped in a thick, greyish fog. Water is scarce. Fauna and flora have almost disappeared. Food produced from agriculture is a distant memory, alive only in […]

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