Quotes
“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.”
I really think yours is the finest documentary made on these subjects, but is still too far ahead of its time to be appreciated. You laid down a marker, and if we are still around in the future, people will look back to that as a significant accomplishment. Perhaps more importantly, you have set a standard for lack of equivocation that future film makers must now heed to be credible. That will ripple out in magnified effect.
Albert Bates, founder of the Ecovillage Network of the Americas and author of Climate in Crisis (1990),
The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook (2006) and 9 other books.