Soylent Green - Dir. Richard Fleischer

Soylent Green - Dir. Richard Fleischer

Lights, Climate, Action · 2025-04-17
29:43

In this episode, Jake & Tolmeia discuss the 1970s detective film, Soylent Green, which is set in an overpopulated and polluted vision of 2022. They ask if this film successfully used global warming as a backdrop to a crime thriller and explore what it accurately predicted.


Hosted by Jake Randall & Tolmeia Gregory, Lights Climate Action is a podcast discussing film and TV through a climate lens. In each episode, Jake & Tolly look at a film or TV series and discuss what it does and doesn't get right on climate change, from fossil fuel propaganda and environmental disasters to cartoons and comedy.


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Jake Randall is a cinephile with a film degree, a love for all things A24 and the odd musical. He works in comms and video production in the climate change and human rights sector.


Tolmeia Gregory is an artist who loves a tearjerker or a rom-com. She currently works as an artist and climate campaigner focused on fossil fuel advertising.


Music by Stowe Gregory.

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Lights, Climate, Action

Hosted by Jake Randall & Tolmeia Gregory, Lights Climate Action is a podcast discussing film and TV through a climate lens. In each episode, Jake & Tolly look at a film or TV series and discuss what it does and doesn't get right on climate change, from fossil fuel propaganda and environmental disasters to cartoons and comedy.


Jake Randall is a cinephile with a film degree, a love for all things A24 and the odd musical. He works in comms and video production in the climate change and human rights sector.


Tolmeia Gregory is an artist who loves a tearjerker or a rom-com. She currently works as an artist and climate campaigner focused on fossil fuel advertising.


Music by Stowe Gregory.


Follow the podcast on Instagram at instagram.com/lightsclimateaction

Follow the podcast on BlueSky at lightsclimatepod.bsky.social

Follow the podcast on TikTok at tiktok.com/@lightsclimateaction

Subscribe on YouTube at youtube.com/@LightsClimateAction

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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