What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire
- Original title
- What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire
- Year
- 2007
- Running time
- 123 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Documentary
- Producer
- Genre
- Documentary
- Synopsis
- A documentary about climate change, resource crises, environmental meltdown and the demise of the American lifestyle. Friends and experts analyze historical, social and psychological factors driving us toward human extinction. Tim Bennett, a middle-class white guy, comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American way of life.
Bennett started waking up to the global environmental nightmare in the mid-1980s. But life was so busy with raising kids and pursuing the American dream that he never got around to acting on his concerns. Until now… Bennett journeys from complacency to consciousness in his feature-length documentary, What a Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire. He reviews his Midwestern roots, ruthlessly examines the stories he was raised with, and then details the grim realities humans now face: escalating climate change, resource shortages, degraded ecosystems, an exploding global population and teetering global economies. Bennett identifies and calls into question the fundamental assumption that has led to this unprecedented crisis in human history: that humans were destined to dominate the rest of the community of life with the Culture of Empire.
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