What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007)

Name: What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2007-10-21

2h 3m

Running Time

Plot.

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.

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Cast & Crew.

Timothy S. Bennett

Director

William R. Catton

Self

Lyle Estill

Self

Richard Heinberg

Self

Media.

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

Details.

Release Date
October 21, 2007

Status
Released

Running Time
2h 3m

Budget
$65

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-02-13

Wiki.

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."