ecological destruction theme
People pollute the environment upon which they depend to the point of total collapse and everyone dies from starvation etc.
26 total · 3 choice · 15 major · 7 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| rbt1985e4x12 | choice | At the center of the story was the idea that the space explorers had stumbled upon a virtual paradise, yet one of them in particular was bent on destroying it for the sake of mining metals. It was implied that financial interests on Earth would likely do the same, and so the remaining explorers came up with the idea to lie about the planet being safe in order to keep more humans from coming. |
| shortstory: The Machine Stops (1909) | choice | the surface of the Earth was apparently all but inhabitable due to human activity |
| voy5x09 | choice | Monean mining operation caused their world ocean to evaporate |
| ldr2019e3x01 | major | Among the various reasons humans had died out, it was made clear, the destruction of the environment was a big contributing factor. |
| movie: Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983) | major | A nuclear war left the Earth dessicated and barren. |
| movie: Godzilla vs Gigan (1972) | major | The Cockroach-like alien's planet became uninhabitable after another race on the planet horribly polluted it. |
| movie: Lords of the Deep (1989) | major | The story culminated with a race of aliens, who were discovered to be inhabiting Earth's ocean floor, warning humanity not to destroy their environment as they had done to their own planet. |
| movie: Neon City (1991) | major | The story is set in a near-future ecologically destroyed world. |
| movie: No Blade of Grass (1970) | major | Global mismanagement of pollution led to a virus emerging that killed off the world's crops and world civilization collapsed. |
| movie: Per Aspera Ad Astra (1981) | major | So polluted was the Dessan home world that people could only go on the surface when equipped with special gas masks, and only a remnant of their former civilization persisted in underground structures. |