Jeffrey Lamp, ORU
The Dustbowl Redux: An Ecotheological Reading of “Interstellar”
2014 film Interstellar
epic adventure, focuses on mission to save humanity from ecological disaster by traveling through a wormhole to find a new world for humanity
plausibility of film, father-daughter, and other discussions
ecological crisis
compare movie to Bible descriptions of Israel’s land abuse
what the movie portrays is a lesson not learned
read ecotheologically, it’s a prophetic call
what constitutes home for human beings?
What does it mean to dwell in a different place? Relationship of humanity to Earth.
Film begins: interviews, elderly woman who talks about father, “My dad was a farmer, like everyone else. Of course he didn’t start out that way.”
Shown with documentary interviews from an actual dustbowl set of interviews
Anthropomorphically caused ecology
Something so cataclysmic has happened on Earth that scientific advancements have been re-written in history.
Notes from 2015 ORU.