A metaphor for Planet Earth

Rating: 2/10 (14 June 2009)

"Titanic" is a prescient portent of things to come, a metaphor of human conceit.
We are all passengers on the Titanic, oblivious to our fate, our planet a wreck, most of us doomed to die on the iceberg of climate change. Exactly when and where disaster will strike, no one knows for sure. But somewhere an iceberg is lurking in the dark with our name on it.
The most cruel part of our fate is we have a James Cameron-class writer and director running the show. The story is bogged down and going nowhere. People are losing interest fast and falling asleep as the movie rolls.
The ship we call HMS Planet Earth is doomed, but no one seems to care, just like the audience in Titanic.
And, like the Titanic, there are not enough lifeboats. A whole lotta people are gonna die when the clathrate gun goes off. The good news is that there won't many icebergs left, eventually.