Richard Heinberg : The End of Growth - Auckland, New Zealand, September 2012

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Richard Heinberg is a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost Peak Oil educators. He is the author of ten books including End of Growth.

Richard brought his challenging and compelling messages on resilience, sustainability and a healthy future to Auckland on September 30, 2012. He asked and answered some of the most challenging questions we face today.

Peak Moment 204 : Oil Puts the Squeeze On the Economy

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This turbulent, troubled global economy is precisely what Chris Martenson predicted in early 2010, "When Exponential Meets Reality" (episode 166). He asserts that we can no longer look at the economy without factoring in the terminal decline of its master resource -- oil. The author of "The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy and Environment" believes that, as "the generation that gets to deal with hitting up to resource limits," we first need a new cultural story to inspire appropriate action.
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History Channel : Prophets of Doom

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Today's world has troubles unique to its time in history, from the global financial crisis to technological meltdowns to full scale, computerized global war. Observing the convergence of such events, contemporary prophets have begun to emerge from obscurity to suggest that these conditions might be signs of the demise of the modern world. These men are historians as well, using all manner of information and patterns from the past to provide context for where we are going. Their predictions interpret the current state of affairs in our world as evidence that the America we know may come to an end. The men proposing these ideas are not crackpots living on the streets of New York; they are intelligent, learned men who come armed with the evidence to back up their claims.

Source : http://shop.history.com/prophets-of-doom-dvd/detail.php?p=297598

The Crisis of Civilization : Full Movie

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A dark comedy remix mash-up bonanza about the end of industrial civilization. Based on the Book by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed - http://crisisofcivilization.com/book/

The Crisis of Civilization is a documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system.

Weaving together archival film footage and animations, film-maker Dean Puckett, animator Lucca Benney and international security analyst Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed – author of A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It – offer a stunning wake-up call proving that ‘another world’ is not merely possible, but on its way.

Like the book on which it is based, the film consists of seven parts which explore the interconnected dynamic of global crises of Climate Catastrophe; Peak Energy; Peak Food; Economic Instability; International Terrorism; and the Militarization Tendency – with a final section on The Post-Peak World.

The film reveals how a failure to understand the systemic context of these crises, linked to neoliberal ideology, has generated a tendency to deal not with their root structural causes, but only with their symptoms. This has led to the proliferation of war, terror, and state-terror, including encroachment on civil liberties, while accelerating global crises rather than solving them.

The real solution, Nafeez argues, is to recognise the inevitability of civilizational change, and to work toward a fundamental systemic transformation based on more participatory forms of living, politically, economically and culturally.

Chris Martenson : O Curso Crash (Legendado PT/BR)

Este vídeo de 3h12 escrito e realizado por Chris Martenson, tem por objectivo explicar de forma clara e simples as linhas gerais da economia mundial, mostrando o caminho que percorremos para chegar até aqui, os riscos que a estrutura social como a conhecemos enfrenta e as mudanças que irão ocorrer no futuro. O autor optou por faze-lo abordando e interligando três áreas principais: Economia, Energia e Ambiente, baseado na principal premissa de que o planeta tem recursos limitados e que o sistema económico actual requer um crescimento ilimitado. Sem teses conspiracionistas e gritos de revolta, Chris Martenson explica-nos de forma séria e por vezes bem-humorada os problemas da economia, do financiamento bancário, do crédito, da dívida, do crescimento económico, da inflação exacerbados pela crise energética e ambiental. Aconselhamos todas as pessoas responsáveis e que se preocupam com o seu futuro e das gerações que nos irão suceder, a verem este vídeo. A equipa docsPT escolheu este vídeo por ver nele o potencial de consciencializar as pessoas para um assunto que na maior parte das vezes é incompreensível e inacessível. Achamos que todos têm o direito de avaliar as perspectivas de futuro e de se prepararem para as mudanças que se avizinham. Aconselhamos a que o façam por capítulos e que meditem sobre o que ouviram. No fim, divulguem a familiares, amigos e desconhecidos. Quem sabe a preparação para o futuro não começa aqui?

Para mais informação visite : http://www.chrismartenson.com/
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The Great Squeeze: Surviving the Human Project

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The Great Squeeze picks up where the documentary Energy Crossroads left off. Our dependence on cheap and abundant fossil fuels has been feeding the engine of our economic system for the past 200 years. Although it has lifted modern civilizations to new heights, prosperity has come at a tremendous price. We are now at a point where humanity's demands for natural resources far exceed the earth's capacity to sustain us. The extraction and the consumption of these resources in the past two centuries have changed our climate and ecosystems so significantly, that a new geological era had to be created. These man-made threats become even more ominous when you look at them together as part of a global trend.
The film then goes back in time and takes us on a journey through history when past civilizations made the same mistake of growing too fast, depleting their natural resources and ultimately collapsing. Instead of the usual band-aid approaches, The Great Squeeze challenges us to learn from history and transition towards a more sustainable economy that values our environment.
Our current paradigm of unending economic growth has become a threat to our prosperity and the long-term viability of humans on this planet. The film is a call to action and gives us a framework for the changes that must take place. We are faced with great challenges, but unlike the rest of the living world, we have the unique ability to adapt and decide our fate and the fate of most of the biosphere, for better or worse, in order to survive the human project.

Source: http://www.thegreatsqueeze.com/about.html

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