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DESCRIPTION:The evening begins with an optional social hour and pot luck supper at 6:00 
 pm,\nfollowed by the film at 7:30 pm, followed by a discussion at the end 
 of the film.\n \nA CRUDE AWAKENING\n \nThis famous documentary tells the 
 story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision 
 course with geology.  Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the 
 film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but 
 logical conclusion -- our industrial society, built on cheap and readily 
 available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled.  The idea 
 that the world’s oil supplies have peaked, or will soon, is gaining 
 mainstream currency.  The Age of Oil -- 100-plus years of astonishing 
 economic growth made possible by cheap, abundant oil -- could be ending 
 without our really being aware of it.  Oil is a finite commodity.\n \nYou 
 needn’t be a conspiracy theorist to see a connection between America’s 
 current obsessions with the Middle East, national security, and the 
 world’s looming oil crisis.  The frenzied search for alternative sources 
 of energy now being pursued by the largest multinational energy 
 corporations makes it clear they also believe a crisis is fast approaching. 
  Oil is running out, and nobody is ready for the cataclysm that is bound to 
 follow.  Shot on location at oil fields in Azerbaijan, Venezuela, the 
 Middle East, and Texas, with original music by Daniel Schnyder and Philip 
 Glass, this important film provides not only questions, but possible 
 solutions to the most perplexing and important economic, environmental, and 
 public policy issue of our time.  Some years ago a government report 
 commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy under Robert L. Hirsch 
 challenged the notion that the free market can solve the onrushing 
 emergency:  "The world has never faced a problem like Peak Oil. Without 
 massive mitigation more than a decade before the fact, the problem will be 
 pervasive and will not be temporary. Previous energy transitions (wood to 
 coal and coal to oil) were gradual and evolutionary; oil peaking will be 
 abrupt and revolutionary."\n \nWheelchair accessible around the corner at  
 411  28th  Street\n$5 donations are accepted\n \nContact Florence: \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/04/18605704.php
SUMMARY:A Crude Awakening
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/04/18605704.php
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