Mar 17, 2013

What A Way To Go: Life At The End of Empire

 


This is a very interesting documentary about the current situation facing humanity/the world. It discusses issues ranging from peak oil to species extinction which is fact-filled and downright chilling. My only critique of the piece was the lack of any mention of capitalism itself (its current manifestation anyway) as the root cause of many of the current problems we are facing. Although the tagline of the documentary is, "A middle-class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American lifestyle", I felt that the cast of experts could have been more  interesting (the inclusion of folks like Slavoj Zizek, Noam Chomsky, Joseph Stiglitz, Naomi Klein, Amy Goodman, Paul Hawken or Vandana Shiva,  would have given the piece more edge, in my opinion).  

What a way to go, indeed......

OneLove

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