Collapse I saw this documentary on Netflix (in the Roger Eibert reccomendations section) a few weeks ago around the time I saw The Sunset Limited. Micheal Rupport, who has spent a lifetime confronting political corruption and cover-ups, was asked to sit in a Los Angeles warehouse basement and talk about a covert CIA cocaine operation from the 80's. Instead he takes this opportunity to give his sort of oral manifesto on the trending state of our planet, discussing a broad range of issues from peak oil to understanding soil.
Listening to him talk, while pounding cigs, about the looming collapse of our industrial world is just as scary to watch as Horror genre films. He claims to not have conspiracy theories, which he is accused of, but conspiracy facts. Hearing and watching him talk, you understand that not only does he passionately believe in what he is saying but his knowledge and realization of our impending doom is a curse and burden on him. He revolves his life around the undesireable and complicated issues that we are aware at least in part of, but cast aside because they are difficult and depressing.
The film is enlightening and a heads-up-er as Michael Ruppert is a bright and vastly interesting guy.
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Adamo (who is probably tied up in a basement somewhere) recommended this to me.
I haven't watched it yet, but will.
If you're interested in this, you should read "Deep Economy" by Bill McKibben.
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