![]() ![]() Calhoun is featured, with a supporting cast that includes William Rees, Desmond Morris, Joseph Tainter, Herman Daly, video clips of Norman Borlaug and M. It is about population, as in human population as it reaches critical mass. About 60 scientists, academics, authors, activists and advisors were interviewed, over 200 hours were compressed to one hour of mostly talking heads, with some musical and visual interludes, with 42 surviving the final cut. Even if concerns related to energy and material shortages could be dismissed as humans "decouple" from Nature, complex societies may develop increasing complexities that lead to a " behavioral sink" effect and irreversible loss of functional behaviors over the span of less than a dozen generations as pathologies accumulate and lead to extinction.ĬOOS BAY (A-P) - This is a transcript of a feature-length 2012 documentary by Mike Freedman intended for global distribution. Calhoun and his "rats of NIMH" experiments, which involved putting rats and mice in an arbitrary and unnatural context, is an alternative source of existential concerns for humans in complex techno-industrial societies, aka human zoos. Malthusian doomers are especially reviled. "Doomer" concerns are ignored, marginalized or denied outright. TOPICS: POPULATION ISSUES, FROM THE WIRES, FILM TRANSCRIPTĪbstract: Feature films considering existential concerns of scientists are as rare as those humans who would rather know than believe. TUESDAY, FEB 26, 2019: NOTE TO FILE Critical Mass A film on population issues ![]()
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