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Ap Environmental Soylent Green Paper Soylent Green is a grim fictional ,at the time futuristic, outlook on how disregard for important environmental issues would lead to overpopulation, food shortages, climate change, and cannibalistic food alternatives. But looking into the future Soylent Green doesn't necessarily look like a work of fiction, the over population, climate change, and food shortages in the film is just a true story that hasn't happened yet. Soylent Green was made in 1973 and was based off a 1966 novel by Harry Harrison by the name of “ Make Room! Make Room!”. The movie takes place in 2022 and follows a New York city detective as he tries to uncover the truth about a suspicious murder while traversing the everyday …show more content…

Real life examples of overpopulation are China, Brazil, and India in specific Guangzhou, China, Tianjin, China, Beijing, China, São Paulo, Brazil, and Mumbai, India which all have populations over 11 million. Practices across the world to prevent and educate on overpopulation include Offering sexual education for all students to prevent over reproduction, making contraceptives more widespread and easily obtainable, and creating more awareness for the dangers of overpopulation, these practices aren't always available especially in developing countries such as India, South America, and China. One popular policy in China is the One Child Policy where the Chinese government regulates the number of children parents can have with certain policies that give incentives to having only one child. Another example of over population is Chancellor High School which could benefit from its own one child policy. The tactics used in the movie are a little more harsh and inhumane than their real life counterparts. Early we discussed how we could easily reach a population size close that of the movie, there's no underlying reason preventing the creation of more crude and harmful methods to prevent or contain overpopulation in the

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