What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire

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. It discusses issues such as peak oil, climate change and the effects of global warming, population overshoot and species extinction, as well as how this situation has developed. The documentary features supporting data and interviews of Daniel Quinn, environmental activist Derrick Jensen and academics such as Richard Heinberg and many others. 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."

 
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All of this, all of this is wrapped tightly inside a culture of denials and lies and absurdities so complex and so powerful that we can barely see through the smog.

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Uhhhhhhchh. What a nightmare.

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The only good thing I can think to say about Climate Change is that when I understood the climate situation I spent less time worrying about oil.

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Empire is literally and metaphorically poisoning every square inch of the planet.

John Delafield:
Equilibrium will be achieved. Unfortunately, nature is a harsh task-master.

William R. Catton:
I think, the way we're living now, the world was overpopulated already by the time of our Civil War.

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