the only other film besides soylent green that have such an air of hopelessness be on the beach . both film deal with the consequence for the specie and the planet from man make cataclysm . on the beach with nuclear war and soylent green with the environmental poisoning of the planet . maybe there cause for some optimism because a of 2007 we haven not reach either of the world describe in those film and we be suppose to by now . new york city still have about 8 million people not the 22 million by the turn of the millenia a describe in soylent green . environmentalist always hail this film a show the consequence of global warming . for myself it also show the right to life ethic run amuck . obviously there no family planning in this world either . charlton heston be an nypd detective who live with room mate edward g. robinson who old enough to remember the earth before catastrophe struck . there be a murder commit and joseph cotten an executive with the soylent corporation and a multi national concern that have come up with a food product and some kind of wafer in many color to fee the world population . it late product be soylent green . the investigation find charlton heston get his man and but also it lead to some horrifying truth about the soylent corporation and the future of mankind . a heston shout in the end that soylent green be make of people and that we have become a race of cannibal and the horrifying thing be that there be no alternative . we have exhaust the planet and we have to eat our dead to survive . this be the farewell performance of edward g. robinson and in his memoir heston speak movingly of robinson even though they have differ political view . a few week after robinson wrap that final scene of his screen demise by consented euthanasia and he pass away in real life . not many do and but heston know that robinson be terminally and there be no act involve in that final death scene between the two of them . though the timetable be off and it doesn not mean that the world envision by soylent green may not come to pass . hopefully we will have not just the intelligence and but the sense of share responsibility to keep that from happen .