The Soylent Corp Were The Good Guys And Environmental Heroes With Danny McCarthy And Nicky P

We chose to watch Soylent Green as a companion of sorts to Children Of Men. Both films cover population and civilizational collapse. I note that I only remember seeing one child in this film mirroring the world of Children of Men. Danny says that the same documents that were relevant in the previous film are still relevant here. The most notable is Malthus.

In my mind, one of the great villains of history, the ideas Malthus spread are completely counter to the truth of history. In reality, wealthy nations struggle to even meet replacement levels. People only populate when survival is in question. For a variety of reasons including our modern chemical world and natural human instincts overpopulation isn't an obvious outcome. As an added note, Danny questions whether the Soylent company is the good guy in this film to those who subscribe to Malthusian premises as adopted by the modern environmental movement.

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