AFTER A CENTURY OF CRUDE, IT’S TIME TO REFINE OUR VISION: The 20th Century can be viewed through any of the three great trends of our time — economic growth, social progress, and environmental damage. But a fourth trend — growing energy use —underlies each of these, literally fueling the incredible journey we’ve been on in the last 100 years. And changes in the landscape of energy may well trigger a whole new journey for humanity. The legendary actor and narrator Peter Coyote tells the story of our oil journey. This is a customizable presentation *you* can use to tell your own journey and to invite new people to join the larger conversation. Learn much more at www.postcarbon.org
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sidvidkid says:
February 11, 2012 at 4:13 am (UTC 0)
This “film” is ideology and not fact.
Nothing about new safe thorium reactors, nothing about ethanol / methanol fuels. Hydrates?
The malthusian ideals have been proven to be false over and over again – we live in a world of abundance, not scarcity. those who wish to take our freedoms and independance keep flying this bullshit malthusian flag every generation, it never works, but here they go again….yawn
FishyMoe says:
February 11, 2012 at 5:04 am (UTC 0)
HAHA can’t remember the 60′s dudeeeeeeee
DrCassandra says:
February 11, 2012 at 5:49 am (UTC 0)
I am familiar with the peak oil concept and this personal story really brings home the local and imminent consequences. Tell your friends!
MrEnergyCzar says:
February 11, 2012 at 6:27 am (UTC 0)
Great video. I’ve been preparing for Peak Oil for 5 years now and have done what many won’t be able to do unless they started already. We’ll demand we use our military before we change the way we live…. there is too much big business money influence to allow re-localization, growing local food, heck, electric cars even get resistance…
candistyx says:
February 11, 2012 at 7:15 am (UTC 0)
Social progress is much exaggerated.
rileymayhem20 says:
February 11, 2012 at 8:08 am (UTC 0)
I watched this without prejudice and I got the ideas and concepts being presented
TIKIMAN198 says:
February 11, 2012 at 8:21 am (UTC 0)
@ashermiller oh lol
ashermiller says:
February 11, 2012 at 9:17 am (UTC 0)
@TIKIMAN198 Those are done automatically by youtube. It’s a bot.
aethermind says:
February 11, 2012 at 9:48 am (UTC 0)
Wonderful. A clarion call - beautifully presented. Thank you.
MrIonization says:
February 11, 2012 at 9:49 am (UTC 0)
one of the things i discovered while researching this for my engineering economics class this past term was the change manufacturing would need to take. Rather than tossing out your old cell phone and all the valuable trace materials in it, you’d replace parts of it. rather than going out and buying a product, you’d go to your local fabrication lab and print off a new piece of clothing or tool
neotruekaiser says:
February 11, 2012 at 10:47 am (UTC 0)
i think you might need to take a closer look at how information is moved now as compared to the past. a slow down of life will mean less information at people’s fingertips, more reliance on fewer points of data, and fewer audible opinions. yet we will still have more or less the same media empires but with no way for people to get alternative views. the food and assumption of democracy is that the ‘voters’ have all the information and make a rational decision. we won’t have both later.
wackbzn says:
February 11, 2012 at 11:31 am (UTC 0)
@tylertyler82 Totally agree with you, and the growing and keeping of them has been one of the most perverse acts that oil economy has done, it’s part of brainwashing called “status” and “american way of life”
DeborahBrearley says:
February 11, 2012 at 12:04 pm (UTC 0)
Hi Conrad….all trying to do our bit to work and live in a more basic and happy way..we will soldier on
Spacesson says:
February 11, 2012 at 1:00 pm (UTC 0)
How can i get the transscript to translate it into german … ?
How can i get the video making file to translate the text n the video?
That would be helpful to spread it even more …
tylertyler82 says:
February 11, 2012 at 1:10 pm (UTC 0)
Suburbs are a cancer!
vatri89 says:
February 11, 2012 at 2:09 pm (UTC 0)
Nice movie. Let’s share this with our friends and contacts ! Let’s translate this to our local languages, too.
DragonYearJoji says:
February 11, 2012 at 2:52 pm (UTC 0)
SHARED with my circle.
Would like to help too.
I agree with everything in this video – I live in Japan and look around me at the madness all around me. Toyota’s aim is for an output 10 million + cars next year. Nissan is looking to nearly double it’s output to 7 million. (Nikkei). Japan can’t say no to Iran for oil. Post-nuke energy production shifted to big increase in LPG Gas for power. Everyone asleep at the wheel in the morning traffic … the nail that stands up will be hammered down!
ammachi3 says:
February 11, 2012 at 3:29 pm (UTC 0)
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. It good to see that PCI have put something like this together. I hope it brings more awareness to people so that more of us can make the transition away from fossil fuel dependency.
marcey666 says:
February 11, 2012 at 3:52 pm (UTC 0)
great video!
nellre says:
February 11, 2012 at 4:04 pm (UTC 0)
Fabulous
350sydney says:
February 11, 2012 at 4:46 pm (UTC 0)
Sad isn’t it that current politics in the US, and here where I live in Australia, simply fails to recognise any of these realities. As well as a looming energy crisis, we have a crisis of leadership. Can democracy fix these problems and prepare us for the future? RIght now, you would have to be very doubtful.
ironearth701 says:
February 11, 2012 at 5:45 pm (UTC 0)
“Be the change you want to see in the world”; Gandhi. I stopped driving years ago and now take the train as much as possible. That can still be done in Chicago. Many US cities need to rebuild their passenger railroads.
stixofnh says:
February 11, 2012 at 6:01 pm (UTC 0)
Excellent, excellent. Spreading it big time.
TheWoodlandGlade says:
February 11, 2012 at 7:00 pm (UTC 0)
In my humble opinion this is vital viewing and should be shared as widely as possible.
Kratax says:
February 11, 2012 at 7:39 pm (UTC 0)
Though when you concentrate on resources instead of money, you might start hoarding stuff just in case. But in RBE there will be equal distribution system, so that you can’t just buy everything so that others are left out.
And here we come to that sustainability is even more valuable than goods. But whole world needs to change. Nations need to change their values towards what is sustainable. Move away from upkeeping impossibilities and move away from debt and move away from money.
Lonnie Thate says:
March 5, 2012 at 11:25 pm (UTC 0)
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