Description
In this haunting portrait of America's oil-fueled excesses, director Adolfo Doring explores the inextricable link between the energy we use, the way we run our economy, and the multiplying threats that now confront the environmental health and stability of our planet. Taking as its starting point the inevitable energy depletion scenario known as "Peak Oil," the film surveys a fascinating range of the latest intellectual, political, and scientific thought to make the case that by whatever measure of greed, wishful thinking, neglect, or ignorance, we now find ourselves at a disturbing crossroads: we can continue to burn fossil fuels and witness the collapse of our ecology, or we can choose not to and witness the collapse of our economy. Refusing to whitewash this reality, Blind Spot issues a call to action, urging us to face up to the perilous situation we now find ourselves in so that we might begin to envision a realistic, if inconvenient, way out. Certain to inspire debate in classrooms across a range of disciplines, especially in economics, environmental studies, the natural sciences, and political science.
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Publication Date
2009
Comments
Dislexic Films ; directed, photographed and edited by Adolfo Doring ; produced by Amanda Zackem.
Original score, Randall Wallace. Performers: William R. Catton, Jason Bradford, Lester Brown, James Hansen, Bill McKibben.
Citation Information
Joseph Tainter. "Blind Spot: Peak oil & the coming global crisis" (2009) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/joseph_tainter/209/