This silly green wacko film was 16 years ago!
Still waiting for the weather disaster.
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They said in the early 2000s that Manhattan would be underwater by 2015, due to rising ocean levels. I'm still not seeing any floods there, have you?
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Nope. And in the 70's they said the Amazon rain forest would be gone by 2000. Still there. They also said that by 2000 there would be so many people that we'd all be standing shoulder to shoulder. I guess they've never been to Arizona or Wyoming.
Actually, according to the green wackos, pretty much everyone and everything was gonna be in the crapper by 2000. They seemed really afraid of that year for some strange reason. The new wave, lead by loony tunes AOC, now says we're all gonna by dead in 12 years. Mmmm. Better pick up the dry cleaning.
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I know what you mean. I remember December 21st, 2012, and like usual, nothing happened that night rolls eyes Why are people so eager to see the world end?
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Oh yeah. That was the silliest one of all. And the answer is, they're idiots.
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Someone -- I think it may have been Jordan Peterson, but I'm not sure -- said people fantasize about the end of the world out of a sense of adventure. A century ago, people like Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, Rafael Sabatini, Harold Lamb, and other writers of adventure fiction were setting stories on the old western frontier, the middle ages, the Spanish Main, lost cities in unexplored regions of Africa, etc.
Well, today, we have satellites to map every visible inch of ground on earth. There are no places where you can conceivably site lost cities for fictional adventures. You can still write historical adventure fiction, but for contemporary settings... well, there are no wild frontiers anymore where intrepid explorers or men of action can go off and have adventures in which they can live by their wits, their fists, and their guns. Anywhere you go today, there is some kind of civilization, and legal authorities who will come down on you.
So, when civilization becomes so widespread that there is no room left for individual heroic exploits, the solution is to destroy that civilization. Presto: you're back to that state of nature where it's survival of the fittest, and there's room for thrilling adventure again.
Of course, that might be exciting to read about, or watch on a movie screen. It would be absolute hell on earth to live through.
It's better for everyone if we just stick to fantasy and writing. Realistically, we have planets we will one day explore, but space colonization is still a century or two away. In the meantime, it makes more sense to explore "untamed worlds" in fiction, such as in books, movies, or games. Anyone who fantasizes about destroying civilization just so they can have an adventure is sick in the head. Your explanation makes sense, but it doesn't speak well on the people who fantasize about that.
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