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What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire

Mar 2008 1
Sat 7:00 PM
Location
Armory Center for the Arts

145 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena
Pasadena, CA 91103
626.792.5101

Estimated attendance
 100  people attended.
4.00 4.0011

Who organized?
Claude Willey & Deena Capparelli and Eric

suggested donation

$5.00 per person

RSVP is optional

Join L.A. Post Carbon and C.I.C.L.E. for a social and informative evening of film and discussion. Bring some food and drink to share. We'll be screening the feature-length documentary, What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire.

What a Way to Go is a disturbing, compassionate, sometimes humorous personal essay about coming to grips with climate change, resource crises, environmental meltdown and the demise of the American lifestyle. Friends and experts analyze historical, social and psychological factors driving us toward human extinction. Bennett's ruthless assessment challenges the audience to face terrifying times with courage and integrity.
www.whatawaytogomovie.com

7:00 PM - gather. Timothy, from the band artichoke, will play songs of honeybees and scientists.
7:30 PM - screening
9:30 PM - discussion

Trailer 1

Trailer 2

"Nothing less than a 123-minute cat scan of the planet and its twenty-first century human and non-human condition."
Carolyn Baker, www.carolynbaker.org

"Perhaps the most important media message of our time."
Jan Lundberg at CultureChange.org

"This is the most demanding wake-up call to all and sundry I have so far seen - a very hard kick in the groin, a straight punch to the face - no mean feat for any film, and essential viewing while there may still be a little time." - A Review by Derek J. Wilson @ Oilcrash.com

"Hundreds of my readers have told me that my novel Ishmael should be read in every high school classroom in the world. Naturally I'd be delighted to see this happen, but I really think it would be more to the point to have What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire seen in every high school classroom in the world! The two hours of this documentary are two hours that bring hope for the future of humanity by awakening and informing in the most profound yet lucid way imaginable."
Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael and Tales of Adam


Event Contacts:

L.A. Post Carbon
Phone: [masked]
E-mail: [masked]
LAPostCarbon.org

C.I.C.L.E.
Cyclists Inciting Change through Live Exchange
Phone: [masked]
E-mail: [masked]
BikeNow.org

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  • Eric
    Posted Jan 14, 2008 5:48 PM
    Eric
    Organizer
    I was very moved by this documentary. I think it is very successful at providing a very honest look at the big picture on the outlook for civilization.

Who attended?

  • 100 attendees
    • “ Very few brought food and drink, but all did partake. More time needed for talk, and limit on how long one can go on. ”
    • “ I met some wonderful people and the discussion was very interesting. ”
    • “ It was great seeing so many like-minded folks in the same room. ”
    • “ The film ("What a Way to go . . .") gets an overall grade of "B-." It had both its "strong" and "not-so-strong" moments. The overall theme of modern/western human thought (in relation to Nature) as a driver for many of our current ills was right on point. This could have been made even stronger by presenting some perspectives from people who live on the periphery of "The Empire" (from non-Euro-American people, in the Third World, who are much more familiar with "loss," and have had more time to develop coping strategies). Mentioning the overlapping challenges of Peak Oil, climate change, and population growth was also fairly well done. The "ending commentary," however, just seemed to drone on and on, for much to long. ”
    • Bruce (+2 guests)
      “ I don't think this film is particularly good as a "recruiting" tool to the idea of post-peak preparedness; "End of Suburbia" is a little bit more palatable for most people. This film overwhelms its audience without giving them any clear-cut paths to action. It needs to be taken in in smaller chunks and perhaps discussed section by section, rather than engulfed all at once, leaving a brief discussion time at the end, when most viewers are just plain exhausted. ”
    • Barry Leneman (+1 guest)
    • deborah kraft (+2 guests)
    • Suzy (+1 guest)

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