Comparing Time Capsule On The Dead Planet And Anita Roy's Cooking Time

Science fiction has many different messages and warnings for the future. Looking at science fiction could tell us what might be stored for us in the future. Both Margaret Atwood's “Time capsule on the dead planet” and Anita Roy’s “Cooking Time” show how greed can lead a civilization to crumple. Both of these texts reveal the consequences of greed and a warning for mankind today. Atwood’s poem is especially relevant to today’s society.

In “Cooking Time,” the author introduces a company with the monopolization of a civilization, and how that monopoly and greed has affected the people. Having this monopoly the company “AgroGlobal” controlled everything including food production, making food pouches called “Newtri” which gave all the nutrition

While on the show she disappears to go back in time to pursue cooking since if she stayed in the present she “might survive,

Atwood visions an Earth that has food, wealth, and prosperity until greed makes it a dead, bearen planet stripped of what it used to be by the end of the poem. The Earth had “deserts” (5) where they were made up of “cement” (5) or others from “various poisons” (5) and these deserts were created out of our greed for “desire for more money and from despair at the lack of it” (5). After these “deserts” were created “wars, plagues and famines visited us” (5). Greed brought people to create these deserts but it also brought them despair in the form of wars, plagues and famines that followed after. Even still there was still more to come to bring the society to its knees. Even after seeing all the damage that was caused, people still seeked to take it even if it created disasters. By the end all the “wells were poisoned, all rivers ran with filth, [and] all seas were dead; there was no land left to grow food” (5). Greed for more money, more power, and more influence, brought society to fail. People used all of the Earth's resources for themselves, not thinking about the consequences of the future. The author heeds a warning for those reading to stop and think about the future to not think about just in yourself but to be considerate to not take all for yourself. The actions that one does predict the outcome of the