Caitlin Nelson

One of my favorite movies, one that my friends make fun of me for, is the Fifth Element. I've been sitting trying to think of things that I have read or seen. This movie depicts mankind in the future. There are no trees and no land. The main character at one point ends up hiding near the ground, because it is so polluted that the air is practically impossible to see through. It's like the smog that we have to deal with today, except far worse. The point I am making with this, is that in the movie the vision that the writer(s) had was a future with no nature. If man continues on the same path as he is on now, will there be nature left in the future? The Fifth Element shows a world in which technology is abundant, but unfortunately the world is not a beautiful place. It is full of metal and machinery, TV screens and flying cars...is that the future we want for ourselves? If we continue to block out nature, to confine it and continually make it smaller and smaller, is it not possible that we could end up with some version of what was depicted in the movie? And if that is what we achieve, I don't think we'll be truly happy. We'll be surrounded by all of our technology, but the beauty of the world will be lost.