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Podcast: Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®
Episode: The Bridge
Description: In 1973, D. Keith Mano wrote his only science fiction book, The Bridge.
It takes place in 2035, over 60 years since its original publication, but only 12 years from today.
It is about radical environmentalism run amok with a “green” socialist government.
The government decides to give earth back to nature, after already protecting all animal and plant life, but the fact that we destroy microbes every time we breathe is the final straw.
Cars have been eliminated, people return to the fields. The world is incapable of complex technology. Obesity is social standing.
There is resistance, but it is ineffective. Diseases must go unt...