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''And he ain't put back nothing in''|'''''Zager & Evans''''', ''In The Year 2525''}} |
''And he ain't put back nothing in''|'''''Zager & Evans''''', ''In The Year 2525''}} |
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On a futuristic Earth, or similar location, plants, animals, and naturally clean water are things of the past. Something terrible has happened -- [[Humans Are |
On a futuristic Earth, or similar location, plants, animals, and naturally clean water are things of the past. Something terrible has happened -- [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|civilization's negligence]] of the environment, a strange natural disaster, or even a combination of ''both''—to turn the world into a wasteland. This isn't (usually) the [[Earth-That-Was]], as the planet is still populated (usually ''overpopulated''), but its on its way there. |
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[[Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap|Real food]] is a luxury for only the rich while the general populace lives off of [[Future Food Is Artificial|synthetic food]], [[Food Pills]], or a [[Human Resources|new kind of meat]]. Forests are gone, replaced by concrete and steel jungles, more commonly known as cities, which are [[City Noir|dark]] and [[Used Future|dirty]]. If there is any undeveloped land still left, it's a desert wasteland, spoiled beyond recovery. What was once coastline is now underwater. If the story takes place/has a scene in a coastal city, expect to see the tops of skyscrapers sticking out of the water. Sometimes this is ''reversed'': seas become salt deserts, with the remains of beached ships scattered about. The problem of overpopulation may be solved with the legalization of suicide, or [[We Will Have Euthanasia in the Future|special clinics.]] |
[[Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap|Real food]] is a luxury for only the rich while the general populace lives off of [[Future Food Is Artificial|synthetic food]], [[Food Pills]], or a [[Human Resources|new kind of meat]]. Forests are gone, replaced by concrete and steel jungles, more commonly known as cities, which are [[City Noir|dark]] and [[Used Future|dirty]]. If there is any undeveloped land still left, it's a desert wasteland, spoiled beyond recovery. What was once coastline is now underwater. If the story takes place/has a scene in a coastal city, expect to see the tops of skyscrapers sticking out of the water. Sometimes this is ''reversed'': seas become salt deserts, with the remains of beached ships scattered about. The problem of overpopulation may be solved with the legalization of suicide, or [[We Will Have Euthanasia in the Future|special clinics.]] |
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