AFS Essentials: Severe Warming Trends Are Scary

Never mind that it's not that hot outside right now (though we would argue that the wet-dishrag humidity more than makes up for what the thermometer's not showing). Climate change is still happening/still scary, and the movie at the Alamo tonight, the next installment in the AFS' global scifi series, is all about that possible future heated terrasphere.

The Day The Earth Caught Fire, having been birthed in 1961, is more worried about nuclear war (remember that?) than long-term, grinding human effects on the atmosphere. In the British-made film, nuclear explosions at the American and Soviet ends of the globe tilt the entire shebang closer to the sun. But the effects are the same as the possible consequences of global warming: "heat, hurricane-force winds, rampant earthquakes, sudden snow, all-enveloping heat mist, thunderstorms, and flooding." ("All-enveloping heat mist"? "Thunderstorms"? "Flooding"? Are we in the future already?)

Anyway, sexy British men try to save the earth from this new climate order, while sweltering under their clothes, is the general gist.

AFS Essentials: The Day The Earth Caught Fire
Tuesday, June 26th
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown
7pm, $4 / Free for AFS Members
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