Soylent Green is… Real!

While the early 70’s Charlton Heston horror movie couldn’t be much cornier, it is downright petrifying in some of its predictions for the year 2022 in which it takes place.

CC Stone
6 min readMay 20, 2022

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The year: 2022. The city: New York. Overpopulation, homelessness, police corruption, global warming, face masks, government coverups, dying oceans, rioting in the streets, wealth disparity, food insecurity, human trafficking. Fifty years ago, when the low budget movie Soylent Green made its Hollywood…

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CC Stone

CC Stone is an American TV & radio host, music journalist, and media producer whose work has appeared on ABC News, MTV, CNN and Hearst among others.