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in Japan > Environment| Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009 How to survive a
'fearful age'? If the habitat for humans goes seriously south,
so too may our species By ROWAN HOOPER The other day I attended
a preview screening of "The Road," the new film of Cormac
McCarthy's post-apocalyptic 2006 novel of the same name. It made
for harrowing viewing, imagining a wasteland Earth from which,
following an unspecified cataclysm, almost all life had
disappeared. In that devastated environment, humans faced a
terrible choice: Starve, or eat each other. It was a fun evening
out. There is clearly a morbid public appetite for destruction
on the silver screen at the moment. "The Road" has none of the
computer-graphic, end-of-the-world porn of movies such as "2012"
or "The Day After Tomorrow" — but it is far more affecting. The
director, John Hillcoat, is on record saying that the themes in
"The Road" resonate deeply in