Bread and CircusesAt the current appalling rate of biodiversity loss, extinction will come for us too. It's only a matter of time.
Trump & Epstein: Biz partners.@breadandcircuses
40 years ago, I read a #SciFi novel called "Timescape" where scientists desperately tried to send a warning back in time to warn ourselves that ecological decay in the oceans was resulting in Global Extinction.
When I hear on the news of things happening *for real* today that were leading up to the scifi disaster I read in the early 80s, it's chilling. #LifeImitatingArt
Shoq@MugsysRapSheet @breadandcircuses That was adapted into a film, wasn’t it? I saw it just a few years back.
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If it was, I never saw it. (IMDB lists a movie by that same name in 2022, but it's totally unrelated.)
If it was, I never saw it. (IMDB lists a movie by that same name in 2022, but it's totally unrelated.)
Angus McIntyre@MugsysRapSheet @breadandcircuses Apparently, future scientists have given up on the whole "send a message back in time" project.
"What's the use? They didn't listen to the scientists they had at the time, why would they listen to us?”
Gareth Simpson@MugsysRapSheet @breadandcircuses wow. I read that book as a child. I don’t think about it much but it is stuck in my brain in a way that most things from that period are not.