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DESCRIPTION:\nFilm evenings begin with optional potluck refreshments and social hour at 
  6:30 pm,\nfollowed by the film at  7:30 pm, followed by a discussion after 
 the film.\n\nCollapse\nby National Geographic Channel\n\nThis National 
 Geographic Channel film about the collapse of civilizations is based 
 primarily on Jared Diamond’s and Joseph Tainter’s monumental scientific 
 works on this subject.  Nat Geo, following Diamond and Tainter, talks of 
 the upcoming collapse of our own civilization not just to be negatively 
 sensational but to make a straight forward comparison between our current 
 society and that of the Romans, Aztecs, Anasazi, and others.  Nat Geo 
 reminds us that we have been burning ancient sunlight  –  oil and coal  
 –  for 120 years with little regard for the limits of these resources or 
 the consequences of burning them.  Nat Geo includes interviews with Jared 
 Diamond and Joseph Tainter — major collapse scholars — and James Howard 
 Kunstler in this film to add to its scientific authenticity.\n\nToday it is 
 well to remember older civilizations that collapsed because their 
 civilizations, like ours, were unsustainable.  The Roman civilization, for 
 example, as well as the City of Phoenix of the Aztecs overshot the 
 earth’s carrying capacity for them.  They depleted their resources, 
 including water.  Politics and short-term decisions trumped long-term 
 sustainability considerations.  War and territorial expansion took priority 
 over food, sustainable living, and even health!  This film tells us that, 
 as a species, we humans are genetically equipped to deal with short-term 
 crises, but unable to plan ahead for long-term needs and limits.  The film 
 shows that each culture left a footprint of its short-term thinking in 
 denial of climate change, food, water limitations, and transportation 
 constraints.\n\nWheelchair accessible around the corner at  411  28th  
 Street\n\n$5 donations are accepted\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/02/20/18672595.php
SUMMARY:Collapse
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/02/20/18672595.php
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