global warming theme
People's activities cause a greenhouse effect and/or other processes cause the temperature on a planet to rise and civilization collapses.
Examples
Global warning threatened civilization on the Beta moon of Peliar Zel in tng4x23 "The Host".
18 total · 7 major · 11 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| futurama4x08 | major | Earth was threatened by anthropogenic/robopogenic global warming. |
| movie: 2067 (2020) | major | The film is set 2067 when Earth has been devastated by climate change. All plant life on Earth had gone extinct, and civilization had collapsed around the globe with only one city in Australia still holding out. |
| movie: Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020) | major | A recurrent topic in the film is that climate change is already happening, and that it is perhaps too late to stop it. In particular, Emma spoke of how climate change was causing ocean levels to rise and that this would ultimately result in Houston and the Florida Keys being submerged under ocean water. Also Lucas was of the mind that the world was going to hell because of climate change and the best thing to do was to make as much money from it as you could. |
| movie: No Blade of Grass (1970) | major | It was explained how pollution was keeping the sun's rays inside the atmosphere and how it would lead to the ice caps melting. |
| movie: Reminiscence (2021) | major | The story is set a Miami of the near future that has been devastated by climate change: the city was flooded by seawater, and extreme daytime temperatures made it so that most people only went out at night. |
| movie: The Arrival (1996) | major | Humanoid aliens originating from the Wolf 336 star system were in the process of secretly greatly exacerbating anthropogenic climate change by releasing copious amounts of greenhouse gases from giant factories, located in various third world countries. Ilana discussed the realities of global warming with Zane. |
| movie: Waterworld (1995) | major | The film is set in a future where human activity in a past age had left the polar ice caps completely melted. |
| movie: AI Artificial Intelligence (2001) | minor | The film is set in the 22nd century when rising sea levels from global warming have wiped out coastal cities. |
| movie: Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle (2018) | minor | It was said that Godzilla and other monsters had somehow arrived in part owing to carbon dioxide mediated global warming. |
| movie: Omega Cop (1990) | minor | Prescot mentioned in passing that the greenhouse effect was getting out of control as a result of all the solar flares. |