ext_12775 ([identity profile] movingfinger.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] james_davis_nicoll 2013-04-01 02:32 am (UTC)

"Disillusionment" is the word you seek.

I recently re-watched Local Hero (1982, Bill Forsythe). I was much struck---much struck---by the scene in which Mac visits the Happer labs in Scotland and one of the scientists is revealed to have developed a way to prevent the next ice age by shutting down the Gulf Stream.

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