I agree, and even before this occurred to me I didn't take his statement literally. I think it's there to shore up the loss of humanity aesop going.
Anyway, I still think including it is a point of interest for the article. Worth a mention in some context, anyway.
I agree, but be that as it may, it really isn't an example of Did Not Do The Research. Maybe You Fail Economics Forever, in that Soylent Green really isn't very energy-efficient. So edited.
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Agreed that that's the wrong trope, not sure about this one either though.
This has been bothering me for awhile though, I just never brought myself to change it.
There's always proposing a new trope about how the law of thermodynamics is often ignored in Speculative Fiction that deals with weird energy sources. In between this and The Matrix you could probably make a decent YKTTW.
See you in the discussion pages.
Well, now I'm surprised that we don't have something like that. Let me get back on that.
So not outright taking out the thermodynamics thing right now, but that's a pretty weak statement. No one ever says humans are the only things being eaten by this society or that this is likely to be sustainable for very long. Nowhere in the premise of Soylent Green is there a suggestion that cannibalism is a means to a perpetual motion machine.
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