The preview for Alexander Payne’s new movie Downsizing makes it look like a cute sci-fi comedy about a medical procedure that shrinks people down to pinky-finger size — a last-ditch effort to save the planet while letting ordinary people live the wasteful lives they’ve been trained to crave.

Their carbon footprints are teeny, see?

In this mini-utopia, pioneering Lilliputians dwell in McMansions the size of dollhouses, and whole gated communities of nouveau riche wee folk generate a mere half-bag of trash per year!