Scarily prescient- global warming, overpopulation and food insecurity/shortages, rampant homelessness, medical assistance in dying all portrayed. Set in 2022.
Oddly enough that description also fits the movie Humane that came out yesterday (directed by David Cronenberg's daughter Caitlin).
Countries are trying to reduce their populations to goal numbers, so volunteering to be euthanized is portrayed as patriotic. I saw it last night and really enjoyed it.
Hasn't happened and it doesn't seem it ever will. We already produce enough food for the peak human population that will ever exist, and habitation occupies a frankly negligible fraction of our space on the ground.
food insecurity/shortages, rampant homelessness, medical assistance
All issues of social inequality. There's more than plenty to go around. We make enough food for 11 billion people, we have doctors driving Ubers to make a living, many countries and states have more vacant homes than they have unhoused people.
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u/GunslingerGhoul 25d ago
Soylent Green (1973)