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Finding strategies for the contemporary environmental movement in classic science fiction films What can science fiction films tell us about the trajectory of the modern environmental movement? On Life Support traces how environmental concerns of the 1970s were embedded in the eco-dystopian cinema of that era, and considers its implications for environmental thought and environmental activism today. Matthew I. highlights Thompson illuminates the patterns that shape our thinking about non-human nature, connecting iconic films like Soylent Green and Silent Running to the transformative environmental texts that inspired and sparked the modern environmental movement, including Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Buckminster Fuller's Spaceship Earth Operating Manual. Thompson studies this convergence between literature and cinema to show how these films, in the context of translating the environmental movement for a Hollywood audience, crystallized the movement's concepts in a form that revealed its underlying contradictions. On Life Support provides a nuanced analysis of the tensions that complicate environmental practice, particularly between desire and fear driving activism, and offers a timely critique of policies of environmental containment and control, calling instead for politics of interconnectedness and pollution. Ultimately, it is by inviting complexity and chaos that we begin to undermine the myth of human control, and let nature flourish on its own terms.