This is a one hour program based on the movie Collapse. Shot in only two days in May 2009 in an abandoned warehouse in Los Angeles the film has become an internet sensation. Pirated almost 2 million times before its official release as DVD in June 2010 the film has undercut the censorship of oil and money. <http://www.collapsemovie.com/>
Beginning with a surprising number of favorable reviews, including from the New York and Los Angeles Times, the film continues to expand attention in spite of its stark and scary message: A collapsing global financial system and the end of an abundant supply of oil are removing the underpinnings of the current economic system. Michael Ruppert says that human industrial civilization is collapsing, and that it becomes impossible to sustain the way of life we have been living. <http://www.mikeruppert.blogspot.com/>
Here is paraphrased, what Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in the New York Times after the premiere of the movie Collapse: Since 2001, Michael Ruppert has devoted his life, two books and a self-published newsletter, From the Wilderness, to connecting the dots between population, economics and energy, and concluding that the center will not hold. Lucidly and with weary conviction, he cites evidence for a declining global oil supply, like costly offshore drilling, and demolishes hopes pinned on substitutes like ethanol (“a complete joke”) and clean coal (“no such thing”). He is shockingly persuasive, and the majority of his premises are verifiable. – end of paraphrased NY Times review.
Richard Heinberg, author of The Party is Over said about Ruppert’s most recent book: Confronting Collapse: “Ruppert has an unblemished track record for saying things that are incendiary, outrageous, shocking – and true. Our new president needs desperately to hear the uncomfortable message of this book about energy and the economy, and so do the rest of us.”
In the first part of the radio version of Collapse I focus on Ruppert’s line of arguments around Peak Oil. There are several respected researchers who also argue that we have reached Peak, the halfway point between the discovery and the end of oil where oil companies take greater and greater risks to tap the last remaining oil fields – as the disastrous British Petroleum spill in the Gulf of Mexico shows. In part two Ruppert addresses the collapse of the fuel based agriculture and of the financial system.
For a broadcast quality mp3 version of Part ONE click HERE
For a broadcast quality mp3 version of Part TWO click HERE
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