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The television series Life after People. Aftermath of the destruction of the world: population zero. The television series The Future Is Wild and pseudo-scientific prognostication. “Seeing” the future as a fictional construct. The animals of the future. Nuclear annihilation and the reclaiming of the Earth. The collapse of human civilization. The exoticism of the end; the imagination of disaster. Conventional animal documentaries and the truth of human depredation. Man as the most dangerous animal of all.
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© 2014 Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
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Foster, G.A. (2014). The End of the Future. In: Hoarders, Doomsday Preppers, and the Culture of Apocalypse. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137468086_5
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