You could not make it up...

James Melville posted this alarming movie plot on twitter...

"Here’s a script for a dystopian disaster movie:

A pandemic sweeps the planet.

In response to this, governments around the world decide to lockdown millions of people, close schools, mandate that citizens should wear masks and that anyone who refuses to take a vaccine (that doesn’t stop transmission) will be discriminated against.

Governments spend fortunes on issuing contacts to companies to produce vast amounts of personal protective equipment and test and trace digital apps that are often faulty and not used.

A bunch of unelected and grotesquely wealthy individuals and political leaders plot for various treaties to be implemented by global organisations who aren’t elected and also put into place a cunning plan for various forms of digital identity that is approved via a QR scanning device on a mobile phone.

Citizens are punished with higher taxes and surveillance camera fines to help ‘save the planet’ while the individuals who enforced these policies travel around the world polluting the planet in private jets and motorcades whilst millions of people pay various forms of taxes to fund their lavish and polluting lifestyles.

Doomsday scenarios are created about the temperature of the planet and solutions are found such as electric vehicle production powered by batteries made with lithium and cobalt. Landscapes in Africa and South America are destroyed and polluted due to the mining of these materials and thousands of child slaves are used for the mining.

Massive deforestation of trees takes place to provide balsa wood and/or provide land space for wind turbines - which are then dumped in landfills after just 20 years of use.

Cow farts are blamed for destroying the planet. Farmland is removed for massive solar farms. Political leaders repeatedly state that they want to ‘save the planet’ but at the same time, create various wars where thousands of innocent civilians die, and meanwhile, political leaders and major corporations try to control the oil and gas supply in the areas of conflict. Millions of people around the world starve, become homeless or struggle to pay for food or warmth - and meanwhile, a bunch of billionaires and major corporations plunder the planet’s assets and acquire obscene amounts of wealth in doing so.

And then towards the end, one of the multinational corporations controlling much of the computer power of the planet receives a ransom note demanding a trillion dollars - or their widely deployed operating system will be exploited to brick the computer systems on which it is installed, requiring a physical call-out to each and every one in order to reset the problem. Instead, the megalomaniac in charge of the company refuses to pay and decides to blame a third party and an interfering EU policy decision.

A candidate for the US presidency survives an assassination attempt by an inch and the incumbent President steps down from the presidential election campaign.

And the bad actors who play the role of villains in this movie display the traits of every spoilt child who didn’t make it to the end of a Willy Wonka chocolate factory tour. 

It’s a ridiculous plot. It’s too far-fetched.