In spite of its far-future setting, Futurama has always been a show in conversation with the present and sometimes in very glaring ways. Yet I don’t think it has ever been so overtly preachy as in “The World is Hot Enough”. To be clear, this is by design, the episode was no doubt structured to be a dressing down through both satire and direct confrontation of our world’s lack of climate action and the irreversible harm that is being done to both the planet and its ability to sustain us. The ‘Climatastrophy’ -a seeming apocalypse from about the mi d -21 st century- is nebulously alluded to several times through the episode and what the people of that time could have done were they not so stupid. It is oftentimes very fair, the derisiveness this episode demonstrates towards modern humanity and it makes for a novelty -though it lacks the sharpness and punch of say, the message episodes of BoJack Horseman , or even a few of Futurama ’s earlier ones. And beyond that premise there...
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