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Noah’s Suprising Relevance Posted at 5:35 PM by Rico Simpkins

icowrich

This puts me in mind of Howard Curzer’s argument that the current climate crisis bears striking similarities to the beleaguered hero of Genesis:

“Noah is told by a highly creditable source (God) that climate change (40 days and nights of rain) will cause a dramatic rise in sea level (the Flood) which will, in turn, cause enormous loss of life. Noah’s response may provide guidance for us.”

Can’t wait to see it?  We recommend prepping with Margaret Atwood‘s excellent environmental dystopia, The Year of the Flood:

“The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God’s Gardeners–a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life–has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God’s Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible.”

2 Comments

jynnantonnyx   |   20 Jan 2014 @ 09:25

If “Noah” is an environmental morality play, does that just make it a grim remake of “Evan Almighty”?

icowrich   |   22 Jan 2014 @ 12:42

Well, I don’t know whether the studio intended it as such. I can’t imagine the parallels would be lost on them, however.

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