Downsizing (2017) - Human Extinction Scene (6/10) | Movieclips
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00:00 Sorry, what news?
00:02 About the methane release in Antarctica. You must know about the methane.
00:08 Yeah. That's not new, is it? I mean...
00:12 New or old. It's the end.
00:17 It's the end of everything.
00:21 The world has already seen five major extinctions.
00:28 And now there will be another. I didn't want to believe it.
00:32 None of us did, but there we were in Helsinki.
00:36 Big and small. Climatologists, bacteriologists, demographers, physicists, immunologists.
00:44 26 Nobel Prize winners among us.
00:48 We built all the models, did all the math, and our conclusion was consistent.
00:55 Homo sapiens will soon vanish from the Earth.
00:58 It is now an actuarial certainty.
01:02 No matter how the end will come. Environmental disaster, pandemic disease, unbreathable air, impotable water, not enough food, nuclear winter, some combination of them all.
01:19 Relatively soon the Earth will indeed purge itself of human life.
01:25 And God knows how many other species.
01:29 Do you really mean extinction? What about downsizing?
01:33 Yeah, yeah. Too little, too late. Only 3% of the world has been euthanized.
01:38 There simply isn't enough time.
01:44 Not a very successful species, these homo sapiens, even with such great intelligence.
01:51 Barely 200,000 years.
01:53 Alligator has survived 200 million years with a brain the size of a walnut.
01:59 And it's gone nuts.
02:01 [Music]