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

Directed By: TS Bennett View Official Website	Release Date: 2007-08-07 Running Time: 2:03 Content Rating: R18 (Restricted)	DVD Region: All Regions Media Format: NTSC-DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Audio Language(s): English
Genres: Documentary >> Politics :: New Age :: Documentary >> Nature & Wildlife

Synopsis

A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction,Population Overshoot and the demise of the Culture of Empire.

Featuring interviews with Daniel Quinn, Derrick Jensen, Jerry Mander, Chellis Glendinning, Richard Heinberg, Thomas Berry, William Catton, Ran Prieur and Richard Manning.

What is it doing to us as thoughtful human beings as we face the overwhelming challenges of:

* Peaking fossil fuel flow rates?
* Critically degraded ecosystems?
* A changing climate?
* An exploding global population?
* Teetering global economies?
* An unstable political climate?

And what is it doing to the rest of the life on this planet?

Crew

Director: TS Bennett | bio
Born and raised in rural Michigan, artist and filmmaker TS Bennett began his inquiry into environmental and cultural issues in the late 80s. With an academic background in anthropology, religion, education and film, Bennett has combined his talent for "big-picture thinking" with his ability to see through the assumptions of the dominant culture and his poetic writing style to craft a documentary experience that is both compelling and informative.
Producer: Sally Erickson | bio
An artist, community organizer and film producer. She was born in Washington State where she developed a love of, and commitment to, the natural world.

Bonus Features

Deleted & Extended Scenes

Accolades

Festivals

Calgary Fringe Film Festival

Press Reviews

Daniel Quinn Ishmael.com | show/hide snippet
“Hundreds of my readers have told me that my novel Ishmael should be read in every high school classroom in the world. Naturally I’d be delighted to see this happen, but I really think it would be more to the point to have What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire seen in every high school classroom in the world! The two hours of this documentary are two hours that bring hope for the future of humanity by awakening and informing in the most profound yet lucid way imaginable.”

Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael and Tales of Adam
Jan Lunberg CultureChange.org | show/hide snippet
"...perhaps the most important media message of our time."
Kelpie Wilson Truthout.org | show/hide snippet
“Beautifully written and intimate.”
Jason Godesky The Anthropik Network | show/hide snippet
“It inspired me and brought me to the brink of tears; it lionized me and made me want to go to war; it’s completely the emotional wave the introduction warned me it would be. Let it wash over you, let it embolden you, and it will give you the courage to seize the future.”
Carolyn Baker CarolynBaker.net | show/hide snippet
“Nothing less than a 123-minute cat scan of the planet and its twenty-first century human and non-human condition.”