global cooling theme

also known as: coming ice age

A planet becomes so cold that glaciers advance and civilization collapses.

Examples

The Eymorg civilization had collapsed when they entered an ice age in tos3x06 "Spock's Brain".

13 total · 1 choice · 7 major · 5 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
movie: The Day After Tomorrow (2004) choice The film is principally about Earth suddenly entering into a new ice age.
movie: Gamera vs Guiron (1969) major Civilized life on Terra was threatened because the planet was growing cold.
movie: Its All About Love (2003) major The film is set in 2021 and the whole world is creeping into a new ice age.
movie: Post Impact (2004) major The cometary fragment impact launched the world into an ice age.
movie: Quintet (1979) major We saw a future where the world was in the grips of an ice age, and civilization had been all but obliterated.
movie: Sunshine (2007) major Earth was gripped in an ice age because the sun's output had suddenly diminished.
shortstory: The Machine Stops (1909) major Most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth because the planet was in the grips of an ice age.
tos3x06 major The Morg/Eymorg home planet was mired in an ice age.
movie: AI Artificial Intelligence (2001) minor We saw the Earth two thousand years in the future when humans are extinct and Manhattan is buried under glacial ice.
movie: Meteor (1979) minor Paul issued a warning at a meeting of high level government officials that a direct hit by the meteor could cause an ice age.