What is the extinction event?
What is the extinction event that happened in the movie "The Road"?
Did an asteroid hit or a super-volcano eruption? Does anybody know for sure what the director intended it to be?
Best Answer
I don't believe the director (or McCarthy for that matter) intended the audience/readers to know what cataclysm caused the apocalyptic backdrop for the drama. It is not specified in either McCarthy's novel or the film - and is left ambiguous so that we may focus more on the situation at hand, rather than the causes and 'finger-pointing'.
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What were the 5 extinction events?
Top Five Extinctions- Ordovician-silurian Extinction: 440 million years ago.
- Devonian Extinction: 365 million years ago.
- Permian-triassic Extinction: 250 million years ago.
- Triassic-jurassic Extinction: 210 million years ago.
- Cretaceous-tertiary Extinction: 65 Million Years Ago.
What is the meaning of extinction event?
An extinction event (also extinction-level event, ELE) occurs when a large number of species die out in a relatively short period of time.What extinction event are we currently in?
The Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction, is an ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch (with the more recent time sometimes called Anthropocene) as a result of human activity.What caused the extinction events?
Past mass extinctions were caused by extreme temperature changes, rising or falling sea levels and catastrophic, one-off events like a huge volcano erupting or an asteroid hitting Earth.Mass Extinctions
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