global cooling theme
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
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |