[D66] What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire
R.O.
jugg at ziggo.nl
Fri Jul 31 08:22:31 CEST 2020
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_a_Way_to_Go:_Life_at_the_End_of_Empire
/*What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire*/ is a 2007 documentary
film about the current situation facing humanity and the world
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World>. It is written, directed and
narrated by Timothy S. Bennett.
It discusses issues such as peak oil
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil>, climate change
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change> and the effects of global
warming <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming>,
population overshoot
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation> and species
extinction <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_extinction>, as well
as how this situation has developed. The documentary features supporting
data and interviews of Daniel Quinn
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Quinn>, environmental activist
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activist> Derrick Jensen
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Jensen> and academics such as
Richard Heinberg <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Heinberg> and
many others.
The tagline of the documentary is, "A middle-class
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class_in_the_United_States> white
guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction,
Population Overshoot and the demise of the American lifestyle."
See also
* Holocene extinction <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction>
* Extinction debt <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_debt>
External links
* Review
<http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_19_3/tsc_19_3_elbel2.shtml>
on The Social Contract Press
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Contract_Press>
* "Meet the Filmmakers", interview of Sally Erickson and Tim Bennett
<http://www.peakmoment.tv/conversations/72.html>
* /What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire/
<https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1413259/> on IMDb
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb>
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