As this blog is inspired on the recently released Nolan sci-fi epic Interstellar, I thought I would introduce a few of the concepts brought up by the film, and of course the ideas behind the arguments I have brought up. I went to see it on the opening night at an IMAX (yes it was awesome), and it pictured highly lucid imagery of a dystopian possibility. The world has been ravaged, leaving a dustbowl of decaying crops, a global population close to the edge, frequent duststorms of enormous magnitudes, possibly as a result of a changing climate and soil degradation, and the constantly feeling of doom. I shall not reveal any spoilers for those who have yet to see the film, but shall say that the need to leave earth from a dire situation is exceedingly pressing.
Excluding the remaining science fiction imagery (which was exceptionally impressive), Nolan's depiction of a dying Earth is resonant of Blommkamps' work, and doesn't feel at all an unrealistic scenario which we could fall into, given the rise of our current economic paradigm's harvesting of the planet, and the political structures that hold these mechanisms in place.
Returning to Gary Peters' essay, he makes an excellent and eloquent suggestion; "Earth cannot sustain a growing population of ever-wealthier people living on a planet that has a finite supply of resources, and the twenty-first century is going to be the proving ground for this proposition", the exact scenario Interstellar forewarns us of. I am not denouncing technologies capacity to continue our species' legacy, but we are also natural beings dependent on our homeworld, and in an endless sea of nothing, the only home we have.
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