What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007)
- Directed by
- Timothy S. Bennett
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 2h 03m
- Rating
- 7.5 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man looks back on his comfortable upbringing and realizes that modern society is heading toward collapse. He talks to experts about environmental crises like oil shortages and climate change, arguing that a mindset of endless growth is the root cause.
contemplativesoberinginformativeurgentpersonalreflectivesomberthought-provoking
What happens
What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire is a 2007 documentary film written, directed and narrated by Timothy S. Bennett, that examines the unsustainability of modern industrial civilization. The film follows Bennett's personal journey from a complacent middle-class upbringing, shaped by the post-WWII prosperity and consumerism, to an awareness of impending societal collapse driven by interconnected ecological crises, including peak oil, climate change and the effects of global warming, population overshoot and species extinction. The documentary features data and interviews with experts such as author Daniel Quinn, environmental activist Derrick Jensen and academics such as Richard Heinberg and many others. The film frames these crises as symptoms of a deeper problem: a "culture of Empire", a mindset that promotes unsustainable growth disconnected from the Earth’s limits. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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