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The most powerful anti environmentalist movie of all times.?


...........That's not saying much. Most of the pod people would give up their wine and cheese before criticizing even the most outrages environmental proposals much less make a movie about the subject. Still, if only by accident, that is what the people who produced this movie did.............The vision of America, coming to terms with climate change, is not the one depicted in Al Gore's Repower America ads with smiling workers retrofitting buildings for energy efficiency, mechanics tuning up what are supposed to be electric cars and a rancher charging his pickup off of a wind turbine all extolling the virtues of wind and solar saving God's green earth and sending a message to Iran (who are probably laughing their heads off at us). Rather it is the vision of a country where many American families are living in homeless shelters, not just in the hurricane devastated regions or the drought ridden dust bowl, but in places like Niagara, New York. The reason their are so many homeless is do to government environmental action. In the original script the reason everyone was wearing drab clothing was that chemical production had been banned. Even soap for cleaning and bathing was against the law. Talk about a old hippie take over. This was downplayed in the final version. Environmental people are still depicted forcing their lifestyle on everyone. Worst of all are environmental cultists who are trying to brainwashing people into being sterilized. The wine and cheese folks would love the idea of a zero growth community that turns away new families, but most of would find such a place repressive............But the world in this movie is got a fever and is dying from the heat, right? Actually all of depicted weather happened before, not in the nineties or the first decade of this century, but seventy or eighty years ago. During the late twenties threw the thirties massive hurricane slammed into the Gulf Coast area. The reason Miami Beach has all of that art deco architecture is that the city had to be completely rebuilt after a very bad 1930 storm. Later in the decade the lowest barometric measurement on record was recorded in the Florida Keys. A 1938 storm actual caused major damage in New York City............Then there was the dust bowl which was actually aggravated by bad agricultural practices, but certainly resulted from a shift in the jet stream causing rain water fall elsewhere. The thirties remain the hottest decade on record. It was followed world wide record cold weather during the forties which effected the outcome of World War Two (not exactly carbon neutral event). The cooling continued threw the seventies when some environmentalists claimed pollution was blocking sunlight and setting the stage for another ice age. The planet didn't start warming again till the eighties when Margaret Thacher (who was trying to brake the British coal mining unions),Al Gore and Time Magazine declared it to be man made global warming. Some scientists believe we're going back into a cooling cycle, but they have to deal with the threat of funding cut offs, lose of their academic positions and even physical threats for saying so.............Something else "The Fire Next Time" took from thirties was its plot. The part of the story where the family is crossing the wasteland in a beat up car and has to bury a elderly relative who dies during the trip seems to have been lifted directly from one of the most iconic movies about the dust bowl and the Great Depression; "The Grapes of Wrath". Not only is Hollywood a slave to political correctness, but once again it has prove itself incapable of original thought.
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It cuts both ways.

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Crappy, crazy agricultural techniques caused the dustbowl, then the soil in the air and lack of evaporated moisture reinforced the jet stream fluctuation (I believe a severe La Nina effect, hence the devastating East Coast hurricanes). Texas et al are currently suffering a drought that is more severe than the one in the late 20s & 30s, but even with corporate agriculture there's no dustbowl due to increased education and improved techniques. Except in Delaware, where we still deep till away, causing traffic accidents and massive erosion into the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays. Not like you should eat anything out of either of them.

Ya gotta update your history and science textbooks now and then.

I will give you that in referencing "pre-industrial" temperature norms, many news outlets fail to mention the Little Ice Age of 1350-1850. 1934 remains the hottest year on record in the US, but the 2000s were the hottest decade recorded worldwide.

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^^^^yeah how much hotter is it gonna get?

Spoiler alert for them spoil sports out there! Y'all like spoiled milk, stop crying over it!

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The fact that they switched from freon which puts holes in the ozone layer to 134a refrigerators which add to the global warming effect may explain things.

Spoiler alert for them spoil sports out there! Y'all like spoiled milk, stop crying over it!

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