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Tag: Environmental

Environmental stories have to survive their own sermon. This tag collects reviews and essays on films and writing about climate, nature and ecological collapse, and which ones stay stories.

Charlie Sheen as radio astronomer Zane Zaminsky examining data on a computer screen in a darkened room.1990s

The Arrival (1996) Review

September 10, 2026

The Arrival (1996) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A radio astronomer finds a signal and works out that the aliens landed decades ago and are quietly heating the planet to suit themselves. It cost twenty-five million…

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A massive wave with a cargo ship on top of it floods a New York City street while people run for their lives.2000s

The Day After Tomorrow (2004) Review

September 10, 2026

The Day After Tomorrow (2004) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Roland Emmerich froze the northern hemisphere in about a week, which is roughly ten thousand times faster than any climate model permits, and produced the most…

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A historical map or illustration showing trade routes and the movement of crops, animals, and diseases between the AmericasBook Reviews

The Columbian Exchange

September 7, 2026

When Columbus sailed west, the most devastating thing he carried wasn't steel or gunpowder. It was smallpox, measles, and typhus, traveling in the bodies of men who didn't know they were carrying them. Alfred Crosby's landmark book reframed 1492 not…

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Trophic StructureEnvironmental

Trophic Structure

September 5, 2026

Invented documents from 2031 to 2054, in which a population ecologist testifies to Congress that autonomous software has formed a trophic structure with grazers, scavengers, parasites, and predators. Nothing in it wakes up. Nothing decides. That is the argument.

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The Sphere book cover, by Richard LoweEnvironmental

The Sphere

July 19, 2026

Earth is dying now. Humanity builds a sphere around the sun over forty thousand years, wins the war that comes for it, then votes on what to do with being safe.

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Moonraker (1979) film poster1970s

Moonraker (1979)

May 18, 2026

1979 Lewis Gilbert Bond film with Moore in space. Drax's orbital station, space-shuttle laser battle, post-Star Wars opportunism.

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