Nate Hagen's superorganism message and more.  Physics, sociology, psychology and a lot of face time from some people who have the good fortune to have a lot of time to think in our society.  They got together to put out a relevant and important message.  The people in the video think pretty hard, and some get up early in the morning to do it.

My criticism is not of them, but a significantly larger pile of money than average for a doom documentary got behind this doomflick.  The talking heads are accomplished.  All make more than minimum wage.  As a result of the money, the video is quality infotainment intended for the curious.  It is not revolutionary, the talking heads are affluent.  They sit in the catbird seat.  At 1:05:57 Nate, I  have to say it this way, takes a public dump.  I can forgive him.  Money is a powerful drug.

An affluent lightweight doomer message is often 'change the way we do things, but do not change what we do'.  That is not good enough for me.  Only a fundamental change in living arrangements will get humanity through the depletion crisis.  Re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic won't do it for me.  Climate change is only part of a larger story of depletion.  The depletion of the environment.

Halfway in we get into Peak Oil 101 starting with what energy is.  Twenty minutes in UGO first appears.  Later UGO explains what energy returned on energy invested is.  Several people appear who Diners are familiar with.  It is a good video, but since I want radical change I have a hard time 'relearning' this material without advocating for something be done.  I am not content to just watch the show.

Carbon Fee and Dividend should be adopted immediately.  I want to get paid for not driving.  Don't you?

* I wrote all this while I watched the video.  I stop write, look things up and revise.  I was just about to google the director at the end.  Susan Kucera, then name of the producer came up and the mystery of the money behind this video's thoughtful but somewhat tame message was solved.

Watch the video to find out who.  Here is a hint.


I'll let this short clip sum up my review.