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VisionQuest Pictures presents a Storkboy Declaration

What A Way To Go
Life At The End Of Empire

A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate
Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the
American Lifestyle.

“Hundreds of my readers have told me that my novel Ishmael should be read in every high school classroom in the world. Naturally I’d be delighted to see this happen, but I really think it would be more to the point to have What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire seen in every high school classroom in the world! The two hours of this documentary are two hours that bring hope for the future of humanity by awakening and informing in the most profound yet lucid way imaginable.”

Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael and Tales of Adam

“Heart-felt and poignant, this documentary will touch you as very few things can. It will scare, and it will make you think. Though it will give you hope, it will leave you with no easy answers. This documentary does a thorough job of presenting the pending mega-crisis in all of its aspects, and then goes even deeper to probe all of the causes, both technological and social. A careful viewing will leave you stunned, informed, and ready to step off the train and begin dismantling the tracks. Watch it yourself, and then present it to as many people as you can. Your life, and your children’s lives, depend on it.”

Dale Allen Pfeiffer, The Mountain Sentinel

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What is it doing to us as thoughtful human beings as we face the overwhelming challenges of:

Peaking fossil fuel flow rates?
Critically degraded ecosystems?
A changing climate?
An exploding global population?
Teetering global economies?
An unstable political climate?

And what is it doing to the rest of the life on this planet?

Featuring interviews with Daniel Quinn, Derrick Jensen, Jerry Mander, Chellis Glendinning, Richard Heinberg, Thomas Berry, William Catton, Ran Prieur and Richard Manning, What a Way to Go looks at the current global situation and asks the most important questions of all:

How did we get here?
Why do we keep destroying the planet?
What do we truly want?
Can we find a vision that will empower us to do what is
necessary to survive, and even thrive, in the coming decades?

Writer/Director: Timothy S. Bennett
Producer: Sally C. Erickson
Consultant: Barbara Trent, Producer and Director of the
1993 OscarÂ® winning feature documentary, The Panama Deception.

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