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Elysium

Elysium is a 2013 movie taking place on both a ravaged dystopian Earth, and on a hi-tech luxury space station orbiting the Earth called Elysium.

Oligarchic capitalism and the superrich have exploited, depleted, ravaged, destroyed Earth. They don't care as they have managed to build the space station, where they can continue 'life as normal'. Elysium is the only place where the beauty of Nature is intact.
On Earth, humans are basically enslaved, working for this evil elite. Brutal robots enforce the will of the totalitarian overlords.
Rebellion seems futile as how do you rise up against them when they live up there?

This is not just a movie.
We are moving towards such a world.
Elysium-type self-sufficient space structures are already the plan for billionaires, like world's richest man and Amazon boss Jeff Bezos.

Nature inside the space structure Elysium

Will you fight against the fascist governments, the heartless corporations, and the sociopathic superrich?
Mother Earth or Elysium??...

Related Quotes

The popular enthusiasm for decamping to Mars is built on the persistent delusion that humans are separate from and can exist without nonhuman beings.
(Jason Hickel, 25 November 2020 tweet)

Resources

New Rule: Make Earth Great Again (Bill Maher, 2017) [8m28s].
How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse (Douglas Rushkoff, The Guardian, 2018).
Normality is now a luxury only the rich can afford (Mark O’Connell, The Guardian, 2020).
Billionaire capitalists are designing humanity's future. Don't let them (Matt Shaw, The Guardian, 2021).
The Myth of Progress, the Human Problem, and the Virtual Frontier (Jared Yates Sexton, 2021; also see here).
In space, no one will hear Bezos and Musk’s workers’ call for basic rights (Robert Reich, The Guardian, 2021) [The bosses of Tesla and Amazon want to take humans to Mars and beyond – but won’t show basic humanity on Earth].
No, billionaires won’t "escape" to space while the world burns (Sim Kern, Salon, 2021) [Article says it takes thousands of people to keep a few alive on the ISS, that the plutocrat space race is not serious. But I think they'll keep trying to create an Elysium. Also see here.].
Why Jeff Bezos’ Space Dream is Humanity's Nightmare (George Monbiot, 2021).
Understanding "longtermism": Why this suddenly influential philosophy is so toxic (Émile P. Torres, Salon, 2022) [Whatever we may "owe the future," it isn't a bizarre and dangerous ideology fueled by eugenics and capitalism. Science and technology will improve the "human stock". Morality is reduced to a computational exercise: "Shut-up and multiply!" The transhumanism and longtermism of Nick Bostrom, Robin Hanson, Nick Beckstead, Sam Harris, William MacAskill, Elon Musk, etc., is just evil elitist eugenics with a new name. Longtermism = Evil.].
Deep space astronauts may be prone to erectile dysfunction, study finds (The Guardian, 2023) [Effects may last decades. Then there's: homesickness, wasted muscles, thin bones, cancer risk. Surely treasure Earth, don't colonise Space?].

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Cybertron

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Elysium trailers:-
#1 official - 3m32s
#1 extended - 4m9s
#2 - 3m17s
#3 - 2m30s

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