Crude Awakenings: The Oil Crash Movie

[Haggis]

OK Matt, how much is shipping to the UK?

[randombob]

Just 1 more silly question....

Is this film any better than the weblink I have listed (the planet on the left) on 'Robert Newmans history of oil' ?

[Haggis]

I hope it's a bit more scary than your link Bob. I've got some folk to scare into getting on board my twisted plans for post carbon life.
MY ex-girlfriend moaned that she didn't get the political stuff in History of Oil 

[randombob]

Tony Blair dressed as a Nazi!
Now thats funny....and true.....and scary!

[JurisDoctorOfDoom]

Just 1 more silly question....

Is this film any better than the weblink I have listed (the planet on the left) on 'Robert Newmans history of oil' ?

totally different films.

basically what the filmmakers did was take the main two pages on LATOC and make a high-production value film explaining the same points. (I"m oversimplifying but you get my point.)  Even the archival footage they got off the LATOC news page.

[HJK]

I would be interested to know first hand how people with zero peak oil knowledge took the movie.

I watched this movie aprox. 1-1/2 weeks ago. It was the beginning of my atom bomb awakening to peak oil. It is common knowledge (to most educated folk) that oil is a limited irreplaceable resource, but few people actually acknowledge the invaluable importance it has to modern industrial society, past, present, and future. This movie opened my eyes in a huge way, and led me to LATOC. It took my a good day or two to get my head around the whole idea. At first i was racked with depression and emotion; I came to realize that we have reached the pinnacle of human civilization. Our whole lives, we've been led to believe that our modern society will last forever, that we as an industrialized nation will pave the way into an even BRIGHTER future where we will eliminate hunger and disparity, that we are entering an age of unsurpassed scientific ingenuity, where amputees will have bionic limbs, cancer will be eliminated, and even the paralyzed will walk again. I believed that till the end of my days, I would always be able to go to the store to get a loaf of bread, a can of soup and a pineapple, and that consumerism would last forever. No longer does Prada, Versace, Mercedes, and a high rise condo hold sway in my mind. Many things that we as people have been led to believe are important (especially to a young man of 20) are in actuality irrelevant. It changed my life. I realized that I will not lay down and die, but will accept the world as it will come to be, and create a life for myself outside the bounds of the consumerist mold, while trying to help others I care for do the same. Maybe helping others along the way would truly be more valuable than pursuing a life of fantastical greed.  I feel now, more so than any time before in my life, that i am on the right path towards a truly enlightened, meaningful, and righteous life.

Probably the most thought provoking images were those of the depleted oil fields.

Especially the way it was portrayed with the before and after scenarios. Incredible.

Ive gotta say The best guy in it is that guy sitting in front of all those survivalist stores  , I like the bit where he says the us public would buy fancy hydrogen cars but not ride bikes

good job doctor doom

+1. You spoke very candidly and eloquently. While i was watching the show, I came to appreciate your analysis even more so than the "expert" annalists.  Props.

[HJK]

BTW, I'm assuming people here watched the dvd that was distributed from Canada, which would mean that you saw the preview for the almost as scary documentary movie titled Jesus Camp.  Now that film looks f*cking scary!

This was the first thing I ordered from Amazon Canada, and already I see things that show me Canada's doing stuff better than in the states.  Just the packaging alone for the movie used probably a 1/3rd or more less cardboard.

What is Jesus Camp? I missed the preview. Yes, up here in the Great White North we are on the way to trying to slow the energy crisis. There is legislation in place to ban the use and sale of the incandescent light bulb by 2009 in all provinces, replacing them with spiral bulbs. I only fear that it all will be to little to late. I guess anything helps, though.

[Leaf]

I had my sister mail this to me..I watched it yesterday alone "I don't let my girl freinds know about this stuff"...Peak Oil that is.
It appears to be LATOC's home page condensed in a documentary....Giving the readers of Peak Oil, visuals and great sounds. The music is very well placed in this movie..I really liked that part...more less half the movie had graveyard-funeral music in it....and why not? Thats is what is to come.
I'd like to see a part two...called "A Shadow of things to come-The Energy Crisis thats Awaits" In this next film.I would like to see the producers depict a film in a documentary sense of jumping into the year say 2025...and looking back from 2008-2025..Showing the Stock market collapse, the water shortages, the totally collapse of suburbia,the breaking apart of America, the Wars that lie ahead and the nuclear exchange, the poverty , the unemployment, shortage, lack of foods, riots, cities abandoned,  ethnic-racial-religious conflicts in the West, Baby boomer's starving to death with a wiped out pension, Youth turning on the elderly, Old Folks left to die in in their convelencent centers, the medically dependent falling by the way due to no drugs arriving or avalible,millions of homeless people, desolate roads...etc....

[icarus]

I'd like to see a part two...called "A Shadow of things to come-The Energy Crisis thats Awaits" In this next film.I would like to see the producers depict a film in a documentary sense of jumping into the year say 2025...and looking back from 2008-2025..Showing the Stock market collapse, the water shortages, the totally collapse of suburbia,the breaking apart of America, the Wars that lie ahead and the nuclear exchange, the poverty , the unemployment, shortage, lack of foods, riots, cities abandoned,  ethnic-racial-religious conflicts in the West, Baby boomer's starving to death with a wiped out pension, Youth turning on the elderly, Old Folks left to die in in their convelencent centers, the medically dependent falling by the way due to no drugs arriving or avalible,millions of homeless people, desolate roads...etc....

You may get something close to this
 . . . I saw James Kunsltler speak a few weeks back and after his lecture I was speaking to him and he said that he just finished a fictional book (I think he said it is with a publisher for review) depicting life after peak oil, set in the not so distant future.  With the way his mind works, I wouldn't be surprised if many of the things you mention are in this manuscript in some form or another.

[randombob]

I'd like to see a part two...called "A Shadow of things to come-The Energy Crisis thats Awaits" In this next film.I would like to see the producers depict a film in a documentary sense of jumping into the year say 2025...and looking back from 2008-2025..Showing the Stock market collapse, the water shortages, the totally collapse of suburbia,the breaking apart of America, the Wars that lie ahead and the nuclear exchange, the poverty , the unemployment, shortage, lack of foods, riots, cities abandoned, ethnic-racial-religious conflicts in the West, Baby boomer's starving to death with a wiped out pension, Youth turning on the elderly, Old Folks left to die in in their convelencent centers, the medically dependent falling by the way due to no drugs arriving or avalible,millions of homeless people, desolate roads...etc....

They made it already.

Its called MAD MAX!

Or just watch the news about Zimbabwe.

[roccman]

No Random...it's called

Little House on The Prarie

 

[kermujin]

I watched this with Mr. Kermujin about a week or so ago. My whole life is wrapped up in this stuff, cause of what I do for a living, and it still delivered a pretty good gut punch.

Blah. We should be so lucky if post-PO world looks like Little House on the Prairie. Sounds a damn sight better than the Mad Max alternative!

kermujin

[gus]

I just saw this last night.

In general, great film - I would recommend to anyone.

Matt - I really liked your comparison of instead of it being like JFK saying we are going to put a man on the moon within the decade, it is like saying we are going to colonize Pluto with 100,000 people.  While putting a man on the moon certainly was a big achievement, I get a little tired of people thinking that since that was done our government can solve any major problem. 

My criticisms are that it seemed in a lot of the interviews fossil fuels and oil were sometimes used interchangeably.  There are a lot of people who think since we have vast coal reserves they will save us, it is was not teased out in the film why that is not really true.

Also, I wish they had focused more on consequences.  Yes, oil is running out and will impact the society greatly.  The analogy Matt makes on LATOC of how a human only has to lose a small percentage of their total water reserves to be in serious trouble is very good and I wish that analogy or a similar explanation of how the economy doesn't need to lose too much oil to have serious consequences was made more clearly in the film.

For anyone looking for the movie - It is available on Netflix.

Cindy

[quietnite]

I teach high school English. In addition to the required curriculum, I teach them to research and evaluate info using all media. This umbrella allows me to show documentaries. Last year I added "Crude Awakening" and had the kids do independent research. The thinking and discussion it engendered was unbelievable. I think it's a crime if I don't at least introduce them to this topic, which most have never heard of (or their parents) and let them begin teaching themselves about it.

It was quite appropriate because they are all on the cusp of getting their driver's licenses and we watched oil skyrocket over the school year.

And yet somedays, I wonder if I will be fired for encouraging them to think for themselves.

Oh, well...I can grow food. Thanks in large part to this forum.

Please don't edit my post for grammar.

[Wallace]

I have 2 copies of the DVD, I bought an extra one to loan out to friends and as soon as I get the disc back they stop talking to me.

Everybody thinks I'm nuts!