The Frighteningly Accurate Predictions the 1973 Movie “Soylent Green” Made About the 2020s

Watching Soylent Green in 2026 is an odd, uncomfortable experience. While the movie is already supposed to be off-putting, realizing that some of its darkest predictions have become reality in recent years makes the experience rather surreal.

What’s stranger is that the movie takes place in exactly 2022, which is around the time some of these predictions have materialized in real life. And, although we’re far from the film’s catastrophic scenario, we’re clearly being pushed in that direction through careful social engineering.

Of course, this 1973 movie is not a perfect mirror of our day and age. Despite its attempts at looking futuristic, Soylent Green remains quintessentially 1970s, and its star, Charlton Heston, brings that distinct “old school movie star” aura that doesn’t really exist anymore.

Nevertheless, Soylent Green made dark predictions about our current decade that show impressive foresight and, apparently, insider knowledge of the elite’s true intentions. And, sadly, the movie is only getting more relevant as the years go by. Here are the movie’s many predictions that are becoming a reality.

Urban Decay

Soylent Green depicts a dystopian society where cities have turned into overpopulated hellscapes and the masses face severe shortages of food, water, and housing. Resources are scarce, as only the elite class can afford apartments in heavily guarded buildings.

Now let’s look at some recent pictures from a couple of cities (and imagine them with the same brownish filter used in the movie).

In recent years, numerous cities in the Western world have seen the emergence of sprawling encampments where homeless people form entire communities at the edge of society. As cities deal with mass migration, rampant drug use, and lax policing, these “tent cities” are increasing in size and number. Some mayors not only tolerate these camps, but also normalize them as part of modern city life.

The direct result of these communities is the creation of 2nd-class citizens with no rights, no resources, and lives valued less. This is a core concept found in Soylent Green.

Another detail in the movie that is relevant in the 2020s is that many “peasants” wear facemasks.

While the prevalence of facemasks has died down since COVID, the elite absolutely want to see them make a comeback. And some circles still cling to them for dear life.

In the oppressive context of the movie, regular food such as fruit, vegetables, and meat have become a luxury that is only affordable to the elite. The rest of the world is fed a highly processed product made by a mega-corporation. And that’s their plan for us in real life.

Food Control

In Soylent Green, the general population is stuck in urban areas because farmlands have “turned into fortresses”. Indeed, the elite control all fertile land, preventing people from owning it and growing their own food.

Well, this is happening right now. Here are some headlines from the past couple of years.

Across the Western world, a powerful push is making farmers’ lives as difficult as possible so large corporations and elite-connected billionaires can buy up their land.

The same people buying up these precious lands are also pushing us to eat insects or completely synthetic abominations.

Soylent Green is said to be derived from plankton, making it more delicious and nutritious than the previous Soylent Red and Soylent Yellow. However, we eventually discover the dark truth: Soylent Green is not made of plankton at all.

Forced Cannibalism

Soylent Green‘s big plot twist and shocking ending is that the masses have been eating people the entire time. And everyone who tries to blow the whistle on this sick operation ends up dead.

Hopefully, none of the processed foods we eat contain human meat. However, in recent years, there has been an insane push to normalize, rationalize, and even glamorize the idea of cannibalism. Here are some headlines from mainstream news sources such as NBC.

As pointed out numerous times on this site, there’s also a disturbing trend to make cannibalism cool and desirable in entertainment.

The concept of corporations sourcing human body parts to conduct business is also being normalized. For instance, Lady Gaga’s company, Outer Bio, obtains discarded human skin from hospitals and other brokers for research. Here’s a short video summing up this strange company.

Through social engineering, the concepts of cannibalism and industries sourcing human meat are slowly being normalized.

However, when Soylent Green was released in 1973, these things were considered insane and utterly revolting. Indeed, when the character Sol discovered the truth about Soylent Green and the powers that be, he decided that it was time to “go home.” And by that, he meant he was done with being alive.

This takes us to another highly accurate Soylent Green prediction.

Government-Assisted Suicide

In Soylent Green, people can walk into government clinics and request euthanasia. As if to entice more people to go through with it, these clinics seek to make the process as pleasant as possible while providing “death benefits” (money) to family members who survive them.

While in 1973, the concept of the government assisting citizens in killing themselves was pure dystopian horror, it has become a reality in several countries around the world. And, during the 2020s (the decade in which Soylent Green takes place), things have ramped up to a bizarre degree – especially in Canada.

Canada’s “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAID) used to be reserved for people with terminal illnesses. However, things changed in 2020 when the country moved to allow MAID for people “without a foreseeable death.” Since then, MAID numbers exploded, creating a scenario similar to what we see in Soylent Green.

And things might get worse. In 2027, Canadians 18 years and older with mental illness, such as depression or personality disorders, could also access doctor-assisted death in Canada.

As requirements for assisted suicide get lower, the world is slowly inching towards a Soylent Green scenario.

So the character Sol, who was disgusted by the state of the world – and specifically by the discovery that he’s been forced to be cannibal – decided to “go home” using government-assisted suicide. And, in a darkly ironic twist of fate, we discover that he will be turned into food himself.

Hopefully, that’s not what is happening with the 100,000 bodies that the Canadian government had to dispose of in the past decade.

In Conclusion

In recent years, we’ve seen a growing number of people react to current news by saying something like, “That’s just like Soylent Green!” It is not merely that the movie made accurate predictions about the future; it’s that those predictions became prevalent in society pretty much exactly when the movie takes place, the 2020s.

Indeed, many of the things depicted in Soylent Green ramped up aggressively in the past decade. From the sprawling homeless encampments in most major cities in the West, to the elite buying up farmland, not to mention the generalization of assisted suicide, Soylent Green got it, unfortunately, frightingly right.

While we’re not at the movie’s level of catastrophe, the elite is definitely engineering society in that direction. With that said, I will leave you with the last frame of the movie. 

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