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WALL-E issues a stark warning about Earth’s future
Brian Krier | Tue, Jul 8th, 2008 | Category: Reviews | Tags: brian krier, film review, consumption, future planet, waste, disney, consumerism, wall-e, pixar, convenience culture, social commentary | 2
WALL-E, the latest animated feature from Pixar Studios, presents some unsettling images of Earth 700 years in the future: uninhabited cities built out of infinite fields of garbage; a planet devoid of human civilization; a landscape in which the color green has been removed from the spectrum; and one robot that rules all. It only takes a minute to realize that WALL-E is not your typical kid’s movie.
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Matt Stroud | Sun, Dec 2nd, 2007 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: headlines, wind power, future planet, solar power, political snow | 0
“What does New York City have in common with cities in Africa and Asia, like Mumbai, Seoul, Jakarta, Lagos, Cairo and Kinshasa? Population growth, aging and environmental pressures will transform these metropolises by 2050, according to a panel of experts who took up the issue of “sustainable cities” at a panel discussion.
“The members of the panel — a population scientist, a deputy mayor and an architectural critic — made sobering predictions about urban change…
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