DURING the five-day Holy Week respite, I was able to watch "The Silent Sea" on Netflix. (Spoiler alert.) This fiction series is set in the late 2060s, 10 years "after a global drought occurred. Lakes, rivers, and reservoirs around the world have dried up and desalination plants could no longer produce enough potable water, leading governments to enact harsh, unjustly stratified rationing measures." A team of scientists was sent by ROK's Space and Aeronautics (SAA) division to an abandoned research station on the moon to retrieve samples of "lunar water."
What strikes me most is the scary theme about the near future, not the technical aspect of the film or the actors' performance. A global drought in 27 years is unimaginable — unless global warming and climate change are not controlled now.
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