Five 'Hunger Games' Lessons for Surviving the Environmental Apocalypse

Five 'Hunger Games' Lessons for Surviving the Environmental Apocalypse: The drums are beating, counting down to the midnight premiere of The #HungerGames, director Gary Ross’s film based on Suzanne Collins's mega-bestselling trilogy. The anticipation of the film’s release is almost as heated as anything that happens in the fantasy series’s brutal combat arena. If you’re not already a fan (and perhaps even if you are), the excessive hoopla might be stomach turning -- but there are some good reasons that environmentalists should be rooting for a long discussion about this latest pop culture phenomenon.