While spreading hatred and fighting over life choices, ethnicity, class, and other social dividers, we have forgotten to address what the real issues are, i.e., environmental degradation aggravated by our actions, which threatens the existence of not only humanity but life on this blue planet as we know it. Not only do we choose to be deliberately ignorant and delude ourselves into thinking it will not affect us, we deny the truth and are even prepared to wage war to uphold a flawed, pathetic belief system. MacKenzie Donaldson’s dystopian survival drama, All the Lost Ones, offers a glimpse into the horrifying future we are headed towards through a narrative that paints ecological collapse in the backdrop of a conflict that emphasizes the age-old realization: the existence of humankind as a species is indeed the worst crisis of all.

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The Dystopian World

A prologue section at the...