"In class, I’ve shown students movies from the nuclear age, hoping that Gregory Peck’s stoicism about the death of the world in On the Beach or Charlton Heston’s
damnation of all mankind in the final moments of The Planet of the Apes might make them understand some of the smothering fear of living in a world on the edge of
instant oblivion. I make them watch The Day After and read Fail-Safe and Warday. To younger people, these films and books now seem like relics from some lost
civilization, full of mysterious, apocalyptic texts and angry cinematic gods."
Ok, cool story boomer. Now try that (the nuclear clock being the closest to midnight ever these days), but add thr slow, impending annihilation by climate change.
He should have shown them Threads.
Maybe we should be teaching you?