All the Time (reaction paper)

The episode was made during the time after the invention of the nuclear bomb, specifically during the time span of the Cold War, when the threat of nuclear war with another country was rampant in the United States. The episode wanted to show the devastation and effects that nuclear war might cause to the country in an attempt to raise awareness and spur action within the public.

If I were to write an adaptation or update of the story for modern times, I would make it to show the most prominent threat that humanity is facing right now, climate change and the depletion of resources. I would make the episode where the main problem would be humanity facing drastically changed weather patterns and totally shifted climates as well as the challenge of where to get natural resources now that common sources have now been depleted. To drive my point, I would show the degraded and pitiful lives of the people living in what looks like a post-apocalyptic world where resources and food are extremely scarce and where natural phenomena like weather and climate are virtually unpredictable and are completely out of line. The earth would be depicted as depleted of any usable resources, a world where the bustle of human activity comes to a complete halt, and as a world where other species of plants, animals, and fungi are extinct due to the actions of man.

I would show as much as possible the future adverse effects of our lifestyle and of our actions today in order to raise awareness on how dire our situation really is and to give the public an idea of how troubling the problem is. Most people are highly oblivious to how great this problem is today so this is one of the ways to help people realize that the problem is worse than we think.