Collapse
Feeling positive about life, the universe and everything, despite the recession?
Meet Michael Ruppert, a man who will soon have you thinking that the future might be even less bright than you think.
Ruppert has been described as both a scaremonger and visionary, but you can make your own mind up by watching this documentary film that features little more than him in a darkened room answering questions about his studies into the planet's demise.
In short, he thinks the planet's oil supply is soon to run out. Very soon. And when it does, society as we know it will collapse.
Much of what he says has been discussed to death, but it's when he talks about the amount of oil we actually consume as a species that you really do wonder how much is left.
Did you know that it takes seven gallons of oil to make a single average car tyre? Or that most of the world's food is packaged in plastic (made from oil), and delivered in tankers which are powered by oil? Crops are dusted by oil-based pesticides, dropped from oil-powered planes.
You can see where he's going.
It would be easy to watch Collapse (82mins, certificate E, out on DVD today) and dismiss it as the musings of a fruitcake, but when you find out that Ruppert is a former LAPD officer turned CIA whistleblower and experienced journalist, and predicted the current world recession back in 2006, you'll find it harder to do so.
It will at least make you think, and there's nothing wrong with that.
