What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007)
A middle-class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American lifestyle.
123 min
Tim Bennett, middle-class white guy, started waking up to the global environmental nightmare in the mid-1980s. But life was so busy with raising kids and pursuing the American dream that he never got around to acting on his concerns. Until now… Bennett journeys from complacency to consciousness in his feature-length documentary, What a Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire. He reviews his Midwestern roots, ruthlessly examines the stories he was raised with, and then details the grim realities humans now face: escalating climate change, resource shortages, degraded ecosystems, an exploding global population and teetering global economies.
- Release date
- October 21, 2007
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Chamber Corps
- Budget
- $65
Cast
- Hannah Bennett as Self
- Thomas Berry as Self
- William R. Catton as Self
- Gerald Cecil as Self
- Douglas Crawford-Brown as Self
- John Delafield as Self
- Sally Erickson as Self
- Lyle Estill as Self
- Tom Grizzle as Self
- Richard Heinberg as Self
Crew
- Timothy S. Bennett · Director
- Timothy S. Bennett · Writer
- Sally Erickson · Producer
- Chamber Corps · Composer
- Timothy S. Bennett · Editor