They saw it coming in 1938
For all you non-Superman folks out there, this is Superman 101. It’s pretty spooky!
Superman is born Kel-El on the alien planet Krypton. His parents, Jor-El and Lara, brilliant scientists whom everyone ignores for years, become aware of Krypton’s impending destruction, and Jor-El begins constructing a spacecraft that would carry Kal-El to Earth. (Apparently the planet is overheating and is about to burst…hmm…sound familiar?)
During Krypton’s last moments, Jor-El places young Kal-El in the spacecraft and launches it. Jor-El and Lara die as the spacecraft barely escapes Krypton’s fate. ( Marlon Brando’s big cameo in the original movie). The explosion transforms planetary debris into kryptonite, a radioactive substance that is lethal to Superman. Note:The people of Krypton were portrayed as living in a cold and heartless society. Though they were masters of science (or so they thought… and then Boom!).
The foreshadowing of the 1938 writers remarkable. Like a lot of science ‘fiction’ literature, it’s become quite real. Today, despite the overwhelmingly conclusive science that global warming is man made, too many politicians (backed by fossil fuel donors)still proclaim which of the following:
A. It’s a hoax.
