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Earth 2100 - Like Drag Me to Hell, but real

I rarely watch shows like this for a couple of reasons: 1. They scare the ever-living shit out of me and I think we are all going to die 2. They make me feel like a terrible person. Earth 2100 did both in just the first 10 minutes. The rest was just an ever-increasing feeling of nausea that I wouldn't be able to drive my Hummer anymore. I've read The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (who they briefly interviewed) and seen Wall-E . so I didn't feel like I was going to get too much new info from this program, but hey it was on and I needed something to write about. The show is narrated by Lucy, a fictional character living in 2100 who's "seen" all the bad shit that has befallen Earth. She walks us through her life to identify where it all went wrong with the planet. She begins with Earth as it is now and then starts laying on the disaster. Her "experiences" are validated through interviews with today's leading experts on global change. Thes...