Our deeper understanding of past ice-ages and the influence of solar variation, geological instability, and the oscillations of the earth on climate, emerged in stories like Gabriel De Tarde’s Underground Man, S Fowler Wright’s Deluge, and William Wallace Cook’s Tales of Twenty Hundred.Įxtra-terrestrial influences (comets rather than aliens) provided the catalyst for eco-catastrophe fiction in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Early Romantic literature may have seen climate change as a metaphor for social progress and human advancement into a Utopia, but that rapidly shifted into the dystopian fears that dominate environmental fictional literature today.įrom the mid-19th century onwards, fiction, and particularly science fiction, closely tracked developments in science. The emergence of both the novel (and modern science) in the 17th and 18th centuries saw a growing awareness of environmental change reflected in fiction. These stories of punishment and redemption form the foundation for much of our literature, not least that of superheroes with god-like or even godly powers. By the end of Infinity War, Thanos manages to achieve his goal across the universe, without violence-painlessly and humanely, with a click of the fingers-wiping out exactly 50% of the population at random, all at once.Įco-catastrophe stories have been a part of our culture from the earliest mythological stories of floods, fires, eruptions, and storms.
His grief sets him on a quest (involving, naturally, a gauntlet studded with variously magical and powerful stones) to halve the population of the universe.ĭespite being cast as the antagonist, it is Thanos’s character who undertakes the “hero’s journey” in this movie. Its predecessor, Infinity War, saw the world under threat from powerful villain Thanos, whose home world had been destroyed by overpopulation and resource exploitation. But I am interested in the function that stories like these play and what they reveal about our broader hopes and fears.Īlthough not pitched as one, Endgame is an environmental movie-and an apt one for our times. I’m happy to suspend a bit of disbelief for the sake of a good story. I’m not going to document plot holes, flaws in logic, or whether or not the science is correct.
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Let me say at the outset that this is not a critique of the movie itself.
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