Children of Men

Whoa! I just saw the film adaptation of P. D. James' Children of Men. WHOA! This is an amazing flick. And, I'm very pleased that an environmental issue other than global warming has made it into the media. The basic storyline is that, among many other major social and environmental problems the world is facing in 2027, women have become infertile...so the human race is literally doomed to extinction. England is the last bastion of civil society but has chosen to deport foreigners and even stooped to internment camps to facilitate the process. In the book, I believe it is male fertility that has been lost, even scarier since scientists are already seeing this very situation starting to happen today.

I want to read the book to get more insight on how the world spirals downward so quickly and disastrously, but the fact that chemicals in the environment have affected the human endocrine system resulting in infertility is incredible bold and timely. True, global warming threatens to change the world as we know it, making human life not so fun anymore in many ways, but chances are we will still go on somehow. Lose fertility and we could really be in trouble. The movie is completely depressing but does provide moments of hope along the way. Again...whoa. This movie is a must see.