I'd say yes, because there's one line where Clooney says 'we haven't taken good care of her (earth)'. I rolled my eyes, thinking that he'd start talking about global warming, air pollution or some other crap which would supposedly explain everything. Oddly enough.... Clooney didn't say anything afterwards. There is absolutely no explanation as to what happened on Earth and what caused the atmosphere to turn poisonous in an instant. Keep in mind, 6 main characters in this film are scientists - none ever bothered to ask what happened. The Clooney character supposedly knows what happened, but never says anything on this subject - and that's fine. The weird part is - the other 5 characters are in space and are just learning that earth has become uninhabitable and they never bother asking what happened in any great detail (When they do ask - clooney's single line that we haven't been taking good care of earth seems to suffice, which is like.... wtf? lol)
At no point during the film did he use a radiation detector. He kept talking about bad air - but not much beyond that.
In the novel, things are even more sketchy, where earth actually looks fine from space, just no lights at night.
How the F ever is this "politically- correct"? It seems politically correct to politicize everything from environment to space now. Science isn't political. Only nitwits turn it into such.
Looks a bit Greta Thunbergian , also there a big antenna they must find, and somehow finding a new planet seems relevant...hmm looks like a bunch of bullshit to me.
This post-apocalyptic tale follows Augustine (George Clooney), a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully (Felicity Jones) and her fellow astronauts from returning home to Earth, where a mysterious global catastrophe has taken place. Clooney directs the adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s acclaimed novel Good Morning, Midnight, co-starring David Oyelowo, Kyle Chandler, Demián Bichir and Tiffany Boone. Coming to Netflix December 23rd.