The English title #GoodbyeEarth sets it as #scifi , they should've simply translated it as “The End's Fool” or “An Apocalyptic Fool”; that's the title in Korean #종말의바보 & the original Japanese novel #伊坂幸太郎 . It's a life #drama .
What makes it crazier, in the two official posters from Netflix, they transliterated the original Japanese novel, as if their “English” audience will understand it. They should've transliterated the Korean title instead of using “Goodbye Earth”; since transliteration is fine by them.
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A Guide to the End of the World: Everything You Never Wanted to Know
Thousands of people die every year from floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes and typhoons. Yet compared to what the Earth endured in prehistoric times-lethal volcanic winters, deadly asteroid collisions-our civilization has developed against a backdrop of relative geological calm. Will this calm last?
So, my parents just called to inform me about their city's disaster plan that was suddenly announced to them...
A little necessary backstory: my parents live in The Netherlands. They live in a city of the between 50k-100k inhabitants category, next to a highway, in an area that would flood with rising sea levels (province bordering the sea), but where nothing special has happened in their lifetimes so far. No earthquakes, no fires, nothing.
The Netherlands has a civil defense siren for disasters, and when it rings, the government advice is to remain where you are or get indoors if you aren't, to close all doors and windows, and to check the news station to see what's happening.
My parents told me they received a letter that explained the following: if a disaster were to strike, it's no longer the main plan to close your doors and windows and to remain where you are. If they get The Disaster Signal (no explanation what that would be) they now need to rush to their car.
From the area where they live, there is a small path meant for bicycles and pedestrians that leads to the highway. They need to rush their car over that path, to the highway.
The highway is blocked off from the bicycle path with a gigantic wall to minimize the car noise, but they've put a door in there that is just big enough so one car can pass at once. On top of the door is a new sign: disaster door. When The Disaster™ happens, the door will be opened. Everyone from that part of the city (at least 10k people) will have to enter the highway with their car through that door and flee.
They also told me that it was explained to them, that if someone doesn't have a car, they need to try to hitch a ride with someone else, or they'll have to call a certain number and the city might have someone pick them up.
I'm all sorts of confused. Are they expecting a disaster to happen for which you'll have to flee? If so, is it flooding? Does this mean they acknowledge climate change and are preparing for the worst (in a terrible way)? If everyone's rushing to their car, there will just be a massive traffic jam and nobody will reach that door in time for evacuation via that little bicycle path, right? And who's opening that door? Will people without a car really be picked up? What if sirens go off for something like a dangerous air pollutant, but everyone starts driving toward that door, like, how do they differentiate between possible disasters?
My parents got uncomfortable with any of my follow-up questions and just burst out laughing about how absurd it all is, and that I should "check the door" if I never hear from them again, and that if a person's time is up, it's just up and you die, nothing you can do about it, that's the way life goes. Sigh.
Anyway, does anyone have any experiences with or anecdotes about their area creating unexpected evacuation plans like this one? Have any of my Dutch readers had the same happen to them recently?
Can't think of any other explanation than that their city is preparing for a possible new watersnoodramp (North Sea flood of 1953) because they're in the general area of that. But to make it so inefficient and unclear... 🤔
The world is on fire, and consumed by insanity, but there is still beauty. Tonight, I saw the Northern Lights for the first time ever. And I live in Canada. I somehow was never in the right place at the right time before, and I was beginning to wonder if it was some sort of snipe hunt prank thing that everyone was in on. But tonight, someone posted on my neighbourhood FB page that they could see them, so I went and looked out the darkest window in my home. After a few moments of my eyes adjusting... there they were. This is the only form of "gas-lighting" that I know of that is beautiful. And also possible the one time I am grateful for my FB neighbourhood page. #gaslighting#northernlights#apocalypse
"You four have been iconic, but we've found a guy who can do it in half the time and at half the cost". -- New Yorker #ClimateChange#Apocalypse#Collapse
“Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences.”
MDMRN Twin 1: Are they supposed to be fighting people?
MDMRNia: What's the word for after the world ends?
Me: Post-apocalyptic?
MDMRNia: Yea, that. This video is like that.