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    DE LEON-DWIGHT-ESE150-2-A74 - Reflection Paper 2

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    The document summarizes the environmental problems depicted in the film Soylent Green, including overpopulation, pollution, and scarcity of resources like food and water. It analyzes that these issues arose due to overpopulation overwhelming ecosystems and natural resources. The Soylent Corporation created the food substitute Soylent Green using human corpses without properly addressing the root environmental crises. As an engineer, the author would recommend technological solutions like machines that convert waste to energy and can synthesize nutritious food from basic materials to sustain the population in a renewable way.

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    The document summarizes the environmental problems depicted in the film Soylent Green, including overpopulation, pollution, and scarcity of resources like food and water. It analyzes that these issues arose due to overpopulation overwhelming ecosystems and natural resources. The Soylent Corporation created the food substitute Soylent Green using human corpses without properly addressing the root environmental crises. As an engineer, the author would recommend technological solutions like machines that convert waste to energy and can synthesize nutritious food from basic materials to sustain the population in a renewable way.

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    The document summarizes the environmental problems depicted in the film Soylent Green, including overpopulation, pollution, and scarcity of resources like food and water. It analyzes that these issues arose due to overpopulation overwhelming ecosystems and natural resources. The Soylent Corporation created the food substitute Soylent Green using human corpses without properly addressing the root environmental crises. As an engineer, the author would recommend technological solutions like machines that convert waste to energy and can synthesize nutritious food from basic materials to sustain the population in a renewable way.

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    DE LEON-DWIGHT-ESE150-2-A74 - Reflection Paper 2

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    The document summarizes the environmental problems depicted in the film Soylent Green, including overpopulation, pollution, and scarcity of resources like food and water. It analyzes that these issues arose due to overpopulation overwhelming ecosystems and natural resources. The Soylent Corporation created the food substitute Soylent Green using human corpses without properly addressing the root environmental crises. As an engineer, the author would recommend technological solutions like machines that convert waste to energy and can synthesize nutritious food from basic materials to sustain the population in a renewable way.

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    DE LEON, DWIGHT KENNETH H.

    MODULE 2
    2019100954 CE-3
    ESE150-2_A74

    Reflection Paper 2 – Soylent Green Movie

    1. What are the environmental problems shown in the film?


    • The environmental factors shown in the film mostly comprised of the lack of
    resources. People are so scarce with food, water and shelter due to the increasing
    population and the environment has been filled with pollution that the sky has
    turned into a green color (due to greenhouse gases). Moreover, there are no plants
    to be seen, there are a lot of cars everywhere, and all kinds of pollution can be
    seen in the setting of the film (air, noise, water, and land pollution.)

    2. Discuss why such environmental problems occurred. What happened to the


    resources from the ecosystems which are previously being provided to the
    people?
    • The main reason why such environmental problems occurred is due to the
    overpopulation (which in the movie was over 40 million in New York alone), that
    has caused the natural resources to be very limited and scarce to the point that a
    single beef or a jar of strawberry has cost over 100 dollars. There are also big
    factories that emit large amount of black smoke that further contributes to the
    already problematic air pollution, in addition with the cars, planes and other types
    of vehicles. There are also no plants anymore, maybe because everyone just cut
    them out of hunger. All of these factors piled up to be the end result of the setting
    of the movie; an apocalyptic, depressed and imbalanced society where all
    resources are no longer available, and those who can only afford it can be
    privileged enough to acquire it.

    3. Describe the agencies involved in the environmental problems, their role, and
    their actions.
    • As stated in the movie, the Soylent Corporation is of the agencies that created
    the Soylent Green, and they are the one who used the corpse of people as the
    ingredient for their food technology. Other than them, there are the New York
    Police who Thorn is working for, in which was the person to identify and uncover
    the real truth about Soylent Green. Other than that, there are Sol’s colleagues
    who are known as the Books, and mentioned also in the movie are the Council of
    Nations, which could the organization of different leaders of countries that are
    involved with resolving these environmental issues
    4. What is your assessment on the solutions applied in the film in terms of
    technology to address the environmental problems? Are the problems addressed
    or not? Justify your answer.
    • For me, the technology provided of the government (the Soylent Corporation) to
    the people as the replacement of food (a processed food named Soylent Green)
    is a terrible solution. Not only it doesn’t have nutritious properties, at the end of the
    movie when Thorn knew that it is made up of people, it became clear to me that
    the government cannot address the environmental problems, so they just turned
    to the most gruesome and terrible decision of recycling dead people. They will do
    anything just for them to keep their political powers, and will make despicable
    decisions like that rather than actually thinking of better solutions to make the
    environment better.

    5. If you were given a chance to be the engineer in the film, describe the
    technological solutions you would recommend.
    • If I were given a chance to be the engineer in the film, I would like to create a
    machine that could recycle the different garbage that are throwing out and making
    it as a source of energy for other machines to work, as it could be a constant source
    of energy so that there is no need for factories to be working. Also, since there are
    very scarce resources, it could be efficient and adaptive to create a machine that
    could make us food by simply putting some of the basic materials that we could
    see in the world like soil and water. With the help of science, we can bioengineer
    it to create a better Soylent Green, with the proper nutrients that the Soylent Green
    lacked and without the expense of using people’s corpses.

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