Green movies

Nope, I don't mean the prurient or the lurid. 'Green' in these global-warming days, when doomsayers would have you believe that the end of the world will come crashing down on us in 2012, means theme or a message that promotes environmental awareness and ecological responsibility.

Undoubtedly, James Cameron's Avatar is the first movie to come in mind when it comes to this subject. It's provocative enough to make you re-examine your commitment to preserving the ozone layer, but if you really want a shock to the system and something closer to him, brace yourself for the aptly titled An Inconvenient Truth. Then there was an episode of History Channel's Mega Disasters which showed in horrific detail what would happen say our present sea levels were to rise 1-3 inches in a couple of years' time: my mind still reels at the images of a London half-submerged in a flood that makes Ondoy look like a stream and a blazing heat that leaves the once sunny California a withered desert.

And if all that still does not disturb you, watch Soylent Green,, a apocalyptic yarn that names the ultimate price that neglectful man must pay for abusing his environment. The extinction of animals and the devastation of the forests process corpses into packaged food, turning mankind into unwitting cannibals.

No greater indictment and punishment is there of man's irresponsibility than the hero, detective Charlton Heston's, anguished cry, "Soylent green [the processed food that is delivered to the masses]....is people."