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    The world is not enough: climate change at the movies

    Oct 25, 2021 3 minutes

    Set in an overcast and dystopian 2024, it rides roughshod over the mythology of the original, repositioning its immortal warriors as banished aliens from a planet called Zeist. Amid all the sci-fi silliness, one plot point stands out: in the fiction of , humanity burned through the ozone layer in the mid-1990s, necessitating the construction of a vast electromagnetic shield to protect the planet from cosmic radiation. For audiences in 1991, the concept

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