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DESCRIPTION:WHAT A WAY TO GO:\nLife at the End of Empire\n \nThe evening begins with a 
 social hour and optional pot luck supper at 6:00 pm,\nfollowed by the film 
 at  7:30 pm,\nfollowed by a discussion at the end of the film. \n\n \nWHAT 
 A WAY TO GO:\nLife at the End of Empire\n \nThis is a different sort of 
 "Peak Oil movie."  Rather than focusing on the approaching decline in oil 
 production and its likely effects on our petroleum-powered modern 
 lifestyles, this stunning film presents that issue merely as a symptom of a 
 larger problem --- modern society as empire.\nThe film surveys the litany 
 of collateral damage due to our entrapment in the empire: \n\n1)  
 environmental degradation, including the approaching disaster known as 
 global climate change;\n2)  species facing a new mass extinction event --- 
 this one caused not by killer asteroids but by the march of "human 
 progress";\n3)  dissociation from the details of how life's basic 
 commodities (such as energy, water, and food) are provided to us;\n4)  our 
 general ignorance of the technological wonders that we depend on;\n5)  the 
 dominant use of violence (war) as a means of overcoming obstacles and 
 expanding influence;\n6)  our Ponzi-inspired, never-ending-growth economic 
 model, which logically must fail on a planet that's not growing any 
 bigger.\n\nWe've been encouraged to live beyond our economic, natural, and 
 spiritual means, and we've done quite a job of it.  The film lays out the 
 bleak truth for us in a surprisingly watchable package, nicely 
 incorporating narration, interview clips, and strangely cool archival 
 material.  Elegant and almost poetic in tone, it gently takes us by the 
 hand as it explains to us the harsh reality of how things really are, where 
 they're likely to go, and how difficult the challenge is. \n\nWheelchair 
 accessible around the corner at  411  28th  Street \n\n$5 donations are 
 accepted \n\n\nContact Florence:  510-681-8699 \n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/26/18598499.php
SUMMARY:What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/26/18598499.php
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