What A Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire January 24, 2008

Boulder County Going Local will present a public screening of the powerful documentary film WHAT A WAY TO GO: LIFE AT THE END OF EMPIRE on Thursday, January 24, at 1st United Methodist Church (1421 Spruce St.) at 6:30 p.m. Admission $10.

Immediately after the screening, the filmmakers will host a dialogue with the audience.

“Nothing less than a 123-minute cat scan of the planet and its twenty-first century human and non-human condition.” (Carolyn Baker, Speaking Truth to Power) Produced independently by Sally Erickson and Tim Bennett, WHAT A WAY TO GO is an intimate personal exploration of the cultural stories and assumptions that have brought us to this point, and provides a larger context for thinking about, and feeling our way through, our global situation. It is the most important film we have seen regarding these issues.

WHAT A WAY TO GO features intimate interviews with noted authors Daniel Quinn, Derrick Jensen, Jerry Mander, Richard Heinberg, William Catton, Paul Roberts, Chellis Glendinning, Thomas Berry, Richard Manning and Ran Prieur, and scientists William Schlesinger, Stuart Pimm, Douglas Crawford-Brown, and Gerald Cecil. It looks head on at our present global predicament, as oil depletion, climate change, species extinction and population overshoot converge in a “perfect storm” of cataclysmic dimensions.

Official Website: http://www.bouldercountygoinglocal.com