For a Volkswagen ad campaign in 1988, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a letter of advice to people living in 2088. In the video, above, the letter is read by Benedict Cumberbatch.
Vonnegut's main message is environmental: If we don’t get our shit together, Nature will have its way with us. In short, Darwin bats last.
Vonnegut's main message is environmental: If we don’t get our shit together, Nature will have its way with us. In short, Darwin bats last.
Vonnegut's list of steps to save us:
- Reduce and stabilize your population.
- Stop poisoning the air, the water, and the topsoil.
- Stop preparing for war and start dealing with your real problems.
- Teach your kids, and yourselves, too, while you’re at it, how to inhabit a small planet without helping to kill it.
- Stop thinking science can fix anything if you give it a trillion dollars.
- Stop thinking your grandchildren will be OK no matter how wasteful or destructive you may be, since they can go to a nice new planet on a spaceship. That is really mean, and stupid.
- And so on. Or else.
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