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DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nFilm evenings begin with potluck refreshments & social hour at  6:30 
 pm,\nfollowed by the film at  7:30 pm, followed by a discussion after the 
 film.\n\nTHE TIPPING POINT:  The End of Oil\nby Niobe Thompson and Tom 
 Radford\n\nThe easy oil is gone.  The age of the tar sands has begun.  Yet 
 as a pristine wilderness and a Native people are being wiped out to feed 
 the world’s hunger for energy, what no one expected was for them to fight 
 back.  Through the story of a people forced to the brink and the revelation 
 of what “dirty oil” will do to our environment, this immensely powerful 
 documentary helps us to really understand the trade-offs we make for our 
 energy as we approach the end of the age of oil. \n\nThis alarming 
 documentary is a journey through the David and Goliath struggle playing out 
 within the major environmental issue of our age.  Stretching out across 
 hundreds of miles, the Canadian tar sands are a barren wasteland, broken by 
 smoking towers, silos, and the massive tailings ponds filled with toxic 
 waste.  For every barrel of bitumen you create a barrel and a half of waste 
 that goes into those tailings ponds.  The majority of them are leaking.  
 The Alberta government has always maintained that toxins found in the 
 Athabasca River occur naturally, with industry not compounding the problem. 
  And Alberta’s tar sands industry is relentlessly expanding — being the 
 USA’s biggest source of imported oil and pumping over $20 billion a year 
 into the Canadian economy.  Production is set to triple by 2020.  The 
 unique pictures in this shocking film reveal an otherworldly apocalyptic 
 landscape and tell the tar sands definitive story. \n\nWheelchair 
 accessible around the corner at  411  28th  Street\n\n$5 donations are 
 accepted\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/02/23/18708014.php
SUMMARY:The Tipping Point: The End of Oil
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/02/23/18708014.php
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