The Sublime of Superman, Man of Steel

Published On: June 20, 2013
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Superman for earth?  The new  Superman ‘Man of Steel’ (2013 / IMDB) is another film story about the destruction of environment, which threatens the  survival of the human species. There is one race living on the planet Krypton and is about to use up the last energy resources of their planet, causing total destruction. Superman’s father, Jor-El, mentions:”Krypton is doomed because it has used up all of its natural resources.” Sound’s familiar?

Now, the human race on the other hand has to avert this from happening – needs to fight, otherwise remaining inhabitants from Krypton will cause the destruction by harvesting Earth’s core energy. In another scene a super tornado wracks havoc, demonstrating the forces of nature and hints to today’s challenges, to save “our” world from more extreme weather and climate disruption.

In the final movie scene the alien invaders try to inject particulates into earth atmosphere. While more drastic, that is what we as a race have chosen to do, when burning coal, fossil fuels or when trying to climate engineer the atmosphere of Earth. Thus, when Superman fights the invaders mastermind, the sublime could be interpreted of our collective affords to save the world from environmental destruction – to preserve the environment today.

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About the Author: Chris Machens

Chris Machens
Chris covers the climate since 2011, and when not posting articles to the site he usually works on our next video production.
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    McLarenMercedes
    McLarenMercedes
    13 years ago

    Gotta love how they use rivets to design a modern oil tanker. Yep, all
    those decades of welding just weren’t worth it, good old rivets is the way
    to go.

    Andrew Heard
    Andrew Heard
    13 years ago

    Superman is awesome. Even the problematic type film that this was, there
    were still some great moments.

    Tripp393
    Tripp393
    13 years ago

    mother fucker would ya look at that..

    peacelovinchild1
    peacelovinchild1
    13 years ago

    Is it too late for a BP joke?

    EnvelTheTrader
    EnvelTheTrader
    13 years ago

    @marvelgeek24 whys it matter if its blu ray or dvd quality will be pretty
    alike in an 20 year old cartoon…

    Ігор Єгоров
    Ігор Єгоров
    13 years ago

    відстій.

    JJPDaily
    JJPDaily
    13 years ago

    Great! Now, if only he could fix the one that happened with BP!

    tylerdurden3891
    tylerdurden3891
    13 years ago

    Hope the blu-ray picture quality looks a lot better than these videos lol.

    Malcham7
    Malcham7
    13 years ago

    SUPERMAN! Why didn’t you save last year when we had the Oil Spill!?!

    kurtnobrain
    kurtnobrain
    13 years ago

    just like a bollywood movie… and i am an Indian….