peak oil movies
PPO has shown the following movies about peak oil many times and they always draw fairly large crowds (30-150).
Sustainability 101: Arithmetic, Population, and Energy
<!--Optional Full-size image ends--> <!--ITEM DETAILS--> <!--shared3/catalogs/common/item_details.inc begins--> Sustainability 101: Arithmetic, Population, and Energy
Dr. Albert A. Bartlett, Professor Emeritus
Department of Physics
University of Colorado, Boulder
"THE GREATEST SHORTCOMING OF THE HUMAN RACE IS OUR INABILITY TO UNDERSTAND THE EXPONENTIAL FUNCTION."
With these words, Professor Al Bartlett opens part one of a presentation in which he shows that the forgotten fundamental of the energy crisis is the elementary arithmetic of growth.
Our world's technological societies operate on an assumption of continued steady growth of populations, resource consumption and the gross national product. CAN THESE GROWTHS CONTINUE? This question is answered by explaining the arithmetic of steady growth.
Professor Bartlett explains "doubling time," which is the time it takes for a growing quantity to double in size. He uses doubling time to show how one can predict the consequences of steady growth in examples such as inflation and the population growth of our communities, our nation, and the world.
In part two the program turns to the problem of steady growth in a finite environment: the situation we face as we deplete our fossil fuel resources. When steady growth occurs in a finite environment, the end of these resources comes frighteningly fast.
These facts are compared to the wildly optimistic estimates and public pronouncements that appear in many highly regarded sources. This discrepancy between fact and opinion creates confusion about the energy situation.
The presentation concludes with recommendations of a course of action that we must adopt in order to make a smooth, rather than a painful, transition to a future of reduced population and reduced energy usage.
Professor Bartlett has given this talk over fourteen hundred times in all parts of the United States and a number of times in Canada to audiences ranging from junior high school and college students to corporate executives and scientists, to congressional staffs. The talk is based on the paper, "Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis," American Journal of Physics, Vol. 46, pp. 876-888, Sept. 1978, and revised in the Journal of Geological Education, Vol. 28 #1, pp.4-35, Jan. 1980. Copies of the paper may be obtained by writing directly to Professor Bartlett at the University of Colorado, Department of Physics, 390 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309, or email him at Albert.Bartlett@colorado.edu.
Professor Bartlett has a BA degree from Colgate University and MA and PhD degrees in Nuclear Physics from Harvard University. He has been a member of the faculty of the University of Colorado since 1950. In 1978, he was President of the American Association of Physics Teachers, and in 1981 he received the Association's Robert A. Millikan Award.
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THE END OF SUBURBIA: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream
"We're literally stuck up a cul-de-sac in a cement SUV without a fill-up" - James Howard Kunstler
Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too has the suburban way of life become embedded in the American consciousness.
Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream.
But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. World Oil Peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, some scientists and policy makers argue in this documentary.
The consequences of inaction in the face of this global crisis are enormous. What does Oil Peak mean for North America? As energy prices skyrocket in the coming years, how will the populations of suburbia react to the collapse of their dream? Are today's suburbs destined to become the slums of tomorrow? And what can be done NOW, individually and collectively, to avoid The End of Suburbia ?
The Power of Community: How Cuba survived peak oil.
http://www.communitysolution.org/cuba.html
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The documentary, "The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil," was inspired when Faith Morgan and Pat Murphy took a trip to Cuba through Global Exchange in August, 2003. That year Pat had begun studying and speaking about worldwide peak oil production. In May Pat and Faith attended the second meeting of The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, a European group of oil geologists and scientists, which predicted that mankind was perilously close to having used up half of the world's oil resources. When they learned that Cuba underwent the loss of over half of its oil imports and survived, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990, the couple wanted to see for themselves how Cuba had done this. During their first trip to Cuba, in the summer of 2003, they traveled from Havana to Trinidad and through several other towns on their way back to Havana. They found what Cubans call "The Special Period" astounding and Cuban's responses very moving. Faith found herself wanting to document on film Cuba's successes so that what they had done wouldn't be lost. Both of them wanted to learn more about Cuba's transition from large farms or plantations and reliance on fossil-fuel-based pesticides and fertilizers, to small organic farms and urban gardens. Cuba was undergoing a transition from a highly industrial society to a sustainable one. Cuba became, for them, a living example of how a country can successfully traverse what we all will have to deal with sooner or later, the reduction and loss of finite fossil fuel resources. In the fall of 2003 Pat and Faith had the opportunity to return to Cuba to study its agriculture. It was a wonderful trip. They saw much of the island, met many farmers and urban gardeners, scientists and engineers – traveling more than 1700 miles, from one end of Cuba to the other. It was all they had hoped for and more. In 2004 Community Service, Inc. (CSI) began raising money and organizing a third trip (October), to film in Cuba. Greg Green, cinematographer and director of The End of Suburbia documentary, was the chief videographer. Faith Morgan shot the second camera, John Morgan did still photography and Megan Quinn, Outreach Director of CSI, was sound director. After their return from Cuba, they secured assistance and direction from Tom Blessing IV, producer, and Eric Johnson, post-production supervisor and editor. Together, they bring over 40 years combined experience in film and television production. The goals of this film are to give hope to the developed world as it wakes up to the consequences of being hooked on oil, and to lift American's prejudice of Cuba by showing the Cuban people as they are. The filmmakers do this by having the people tell their story on film. It's a story of their dedication to independence and triumph over adversity, and a story of cooperation and hope. Several Cubans expressed the belief that living on an island, with its natural boundaries, breeds awareness that there are limits to natural resources. Everyone who has worked on the documentary hopes that, seeing this film, people will also see the world on which we live, as another, much larger, island.
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