I saw this movie about a year ago. I’m a firm believer in Peak Oil and this movie makes some scary but not unreasonable projections about what will happen within the next few decades. I think a lot of the people on this blog would really enjoy this movie.
One thing the movie doesn’t touch on, as I remember, is “petrodollar recycling”. I think this is really the #1 reason why the US invaded Iraq and may end up doing the same with Iran. Both have threatened to start trading oil in Euros instead of Dollars. We need the rest of the world to pay for oil with Dollars so that we can keep printing more Dollars without causing domestic inflation. Do a google search on “petrodollar recycling”.
I think anyone who cares about the future of our civilization would find “The End of Suburbia”, “An Inconvenient Truth”, and “Soylent Green” very thought provoking. “The Corporation” and “Manufacturing Consent” are two other movies I highly recommendend; they touch on the reasons why the general public is so blissfully unaware of how bad things really are economically and environmentally.
