Reviews of the Film
June 1, 2008
“Review of What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire, Part 1″ on The Mennonite by Tim Nafziger.
“Progress and Expansion: Stories That Undergird our Civilization” Part 2 of the review on The Mennonite by Tim Nafziger.
“One of the things What a Way to Go specifically refuses to do is give us a simple answer that we can go away with satisfied. Instead, it suggests some very general ideas like interdependence with the community of life, integrating ourselves with the earth rather than seeking to control it and building an ark of relationships around us to help us survive and imagine other ways. We need to begin to recognize the way the narrative of progress dominates so much of our life in unconscious ways if we are going to begin to heal ourselves and our world. “
April 20, 2008
“Movie Review of What a Way to Go” on GrinningPlanet.com.
“Elegant and almost poetic in tone, What a Way To Go gently takes us by the hand as it explains to us the harsh reality of how things really are, where they’re likely to go, and how difficult the challenge is”
October 17, 2007
“A New Beginning”, a Permaculture Activist Review by John Wages
“This movie lifts the veil from civilization to show us the hollowness of what we once thought hallowed.”
October 17, 2007
“What a Way to Go”, a Dry Dipstick Movie Review by Mick Winter
“A two-hour poem of great power and beauty… I have never seen a film quite like this before.”
October 17, 2007
Tim Bennett and Sally Erickson - What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire, a review by John Ludi
“What a Way to Go offers both a reflective indictment of our collective folly for the uninitiated, and gives that smalll attentive minority who are looking at the same facts and evidence and reaching the same conclusions the reassurance that we are not crazy.”
October 13, 2007
“What a Way to Go - A review of a new doomer cult classic” posted by JMG on Grist.org
” …the best movie on the big picture (peak oil, climate change, rate of extinctions, and population overshoot) a person can make.”
October 11, 2007
“What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire, a comparison with The 11th Hour by Keith Thomas at the Nature and Society Forum
“What a Way to Go is the advanced course for those who are intellectually and emotionally prepared to examine critically our way of life - the viewer takes away ideas, even subversive ones.”
September 28, 2007
What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire, a review by Phil Watson for Common Ground Magazine Look for the October 2007 issue on newsstands now!
September 15, 2007
What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire, a review by Thomas Naylor at the Second Vermont Republic
“A gripping documentary about the American Endgame.”
September 14, 2007
“The 11th Hour and Generation Z” by Kelpie Wilson at truthout.org
“Beautifully written and intimate.”
August 23, 2007
“What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire”, a review by Keith Thomas at the Nature and Society Forum
“Despite its uncompromising challenges to viewers, I predict it will quickly acquire “cult status” because of its power to change lives and to motivate people to change events, and that we’ll be hearing a lot about it over the coming years.”
August 18, 2007
Movie Recommendation: “What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire” by GliderGuider at DemocraticUnderground.com
“They tell the whole story, without once looking away, without even blinking… This is the whole enchilada.”
August 17, 2007