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Zootopia also apparently lacks factories, which implies that it's a domineering city-state whose incredible resource consumption is fueled by factories elsewhere in the world that are no doubt much less whimsical to live in. And what are Zootopia's energy requirements? While their base climate is moderate, Zootopia is an intricate megacity with 12 distinct climate-controlled subsections. The Rainforest District is connected to Tundratown, which leads right into Sahara goddamn Square. What does it take to give power to 3.5 billion people and maintain an artificial tundra in-between an artificial rainforest and an artificial desert? Well, America consumes 4.686 billion megawatt hours per year, which works out to about 14.7 per person. That rate means Zootopia is consuming 51,690,559,692 megawatt hours, or roughly half of what our entire planet consumes. And that's before we factor in Zootopia's elaborate climate engineering. This city is sucking the planet dry.

A staggering population boom combined with out-of-control resource consumption produces a clear end result. If the Hopps family and everyone else in Zootopia keeps breeding like their biology drives them to, they'll strip the land of natural resources in mere decades. Hundreds of billions will be doomed to ugly deaths, while the survivors scrape out low-tech lives in the ruins of an arrogant metropolis.

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How can Zootopia avoid its fate? Well, it could institute strict population control. But when China instituted its one-child policy, there were countless cases of infanticide, forced abortions, and forced sterilizations, and Chinese couples didn't have to be stopped from pumping out 275 kids each. Zootopia would have to convert from fun-loving PG democracy to brutal R-rated dictatorship virtually overnight, and this is a city that saw serious tensions over abuses of mayoral power and a few cases of racial discrimination. And how can a complicated megacity keep itself running with a shrinking, unhappy, and sexually frustrated population? Zootopia has to ease the incredible burden it puts on the planet, so it simply can't keep functioning as it currently is.

And a despised violent dictatorship is the best possibility. Human history is littered with civil wars fought over natural resources, and to the predators of Zootopia, prey animals are literally a resource. When an overpopulated Zootopia starts failing, how long will it take before the predators consider the possibility of eating some prey and enslaving the rest? And how long will it take the prey animals to start fighting back with their superior numbers? Maybe animal civilization would survive the conflict in some form, but Zootopia wouldn't.

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Zootopia is a movie about the brief halcyon days of an imperious city as it remains willfully blind to its inevitable doom. Judy might soon be ordered to arrest illegally pregnant animals while her family helps bring about Zootopia's downfall by literally fucking civilization to death. Which means all the creepy fans who want Judy and Nick to hook up are onto something -- childless interspecies romances might be the only way to save Zootopia.

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