The independent film-makers are at it again. And they’re doing a bang-up job! Who? Sally Erickson and Tim Bennett.
This movie, ‘What a Way to Go: life at the end of empire’ should be seen in every high school classroom in the USA.
Community screenings are indeed being organized around the world as this unique two hour documentary hits hard and hits deep right where it counts; at the heartstrings of humanity.
“What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire is not Just Another Eco-tastrophe Movie. It’s a personal, poetic, and challenging cultural analysis of the mess Western and rich capitalist societies are in.” source
A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate
Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle. source
The documentary is in four parts: “Waking on the train“, “The train and the tracks“, “The locomotive power“, and “Walkabout“. So, in a well organized fashion, in just over two hours, the film thoroughly explores elements of our planetary predicament: how we got into it, how bad it is, and what our prospects are for recognizing our collective dilemma before it’s too late.
One gets the clear sensation of needing to immediately save our planet for the approximate half of today’s living species that may still be around in a few decades. source: Culture Change Letter #159 – May 20, 2007 Contributed by Jan Lundberg [pdf]
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