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What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire

What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 21, 2007

Runtime

2h 3m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

75%

Original Title

What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire

Director

Timothy S. Bennett

Budget

$65

Description

Tim Bennett, middle-class white guy, started waking up to the global environmental nightmare in the mid-1980s. But life was so busy with raising kids and pursuing the American dream that he never got around to acting on his concerns. Until now… Bennett journeys from complacency to consciousness in his feature-length documentary, What a Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire. He reviews his Midwestern roots, ruthlessly examines the stories he was raised with, and then details the grim realities humans now face: escalating climate change, resource shortages, degraded ecosystems, an exploding global population and teetering global economies.