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

What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire
Directed by	Timothy S. Bennett
Written by	Timothy S. Bennett
Produced by	Sally Erickson
Starring	Thomas Berry, William Catton, Gerald Cecil, Douglas Crawford-Brown, Sally Erickson, Lyle Estill, Chellis Glendinning, Otis Graham, Richard Heinberg, Derrick Jensen, Jerry Mander, Richard Manning, Stuart Pimm, Ran Prieur, Daniel Quinn, Paul Roberts, William Schlesinger
Narrated by	Timothy S. Bennett
Music by	Original score by Chamber Corps (Chris Rossi and James Hepler) “Let’s Build a Boat” Written and Performed by Brian Hall
Distributed by	VisionQuest Pictures
Release date	2007 (2007)
Running time	123 min
Country	United States
Language	English

What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire is a 2007 documentary film written, directed and narrated by Timothy S. Bennett.

It discusses issues such as peak oil, climate change and the effects of global warming, population overshoot and species extinction, as well as how this situation has developed. The documentary features supporting data and interviews of Daniel Quinn, environmental activist Derrick Jensen and academics such as Richard Heinberg and many others.

The tagline of the documentary is, "A middle-class white guy comes to grips with peak oil, climate change, mass extinction, population overshoot and the demise of the American lifestyle."

See also

• Holocene extinction
• Extinction debt

External links

• Review on The Social Contract Press
• "Meet the Filmmakers", interview of Sally Erickson and Tim Bennett Archived 2007-11-02 at the Wayback Machine
• What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire at IMDb
• "What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire" at www.cultureunplugged.com