Blind Spot
by Adolfo Doring
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Director: Adolfo DoringBrand: Koch International
Writer: Adolfo Doring
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-31
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Indieblitz Releasing
Product features:
- Informative, ucompromising view into our current environmental and economic quandry.
- Disarmingly beautiful and tragic.
- A unique multidisiplinary exploration into the way oil has transformed our civilization and put us and the planet in peril.
Movie Reviews of Blind Spot
Movie Review: this sleeper is still the best film on Peak Oil
Summary: 5 Stars
Blind Spot was directed by this easy-going hard-working team of adolfo and amanda who patiently put together the first peak oil film to seriously discuss "overshoot" and "carrying capacity" - two of the most important concepts any world citizen should know. william catton's monumental book overshoot finally makes it's first appearance in a film as william catton, and later in the film, mathematics professor albert bartlett show how ignoring population and simple exponential math will, unchecked, destroy western civilization and alarmingly soon. oil is a one-time resource. use once and it's gone. millions of years at the right heat and pressure to make and it will be too expensive to extract by 2100 because no one wanted to save it for grandchildren or use it sparingly. 2005 was probably the year of peak oil; that means that half of all the oil in history (the EASY to get half) is now gone. thus the end of cheap energy. without fossil fuels the world could support one billion, maybe 2.5 billion, depending on who you ask. so this century (of peak oil, peak uranium, peak coal, peak everything) the world's population must go down quite a few billion whether we like it or not, or there WILL be a massive die-off this century.
when the first barrel of american oil was extracted in the 19th century, the EROI (energy returned on investment) was a whopping 100 to 1. civilization needs a ratio of 10 to one to survive. put a dollar in the ground and out comes 10 dollars of fossil fuel. the EROI ratio of oil is now at 20 to 1. there will always be oil in the ground. it will just take more money to pump it than it is worth. ethanol is a best 2.5 to 1. thus ethanol could only be a drag on civilization due simply to a shamefully low EROI (and you would have to plant only ethanol and have no food or people everywhere). when the EROI of oil falls below 10, the threshold of civilization, and it will this century, then the real fun begins. because few people are planning for this or thinking about anything other than britney spears and the michael jackson tributes few things will change in time. when your car is going to crash and you are driving, the smart thing to do is to respond. all of us must educate ourselves fast -and respond.
great interviews with richard heinberg, matt savinar, william catton, roscoe bartlett, albert bartlett, mary-anne hitt, bill mckibben, and even derrick jensen. nobody seems to want to cover derrick jensen and he's such a huge influence on the whole movement (check out his non-fiction books on civilization on amazon - amazing). derrick says some great stuff in this movie and it pretty much begins and ends with derrick. some illiterate in england complained that this movie had no women interviewed. i thought that's pretty insulting to mary anne hitt of appalachian voices who discusses mountaintop removal & coal. i also saw the reviews:
official selection london independent film festival 2008
official selection woodstock film festival 2008
howard zinn: "i was transfixed by it."
laura flanders: "beautiful images, gorgeous soundtrack"
bill mc kibben: "the next few decades aren't going to look like the last few - not at all. and the sooner we come to terms with that, the better. this documentary is a good place to start."
john stauber: "beautiful, crucial, straightfoward, brilliantly woven images and music."
"BLIND SPOT is a documentary that illustrates the current energy crisis that our way of life is facing. whatever measures of greed, wishful thinking, neglect or ignorance, we have put ourselves at a crossroad which offers two paths, both with dire consequences. if we continue to burn fossil fuels we will choke the life out of our planet and if we don't our way of life will collapse"
-on the dvd case
the title of the film comes from william catton's wife who once paused and said to adolfo, "you know, i think it's actually the world's blind spot" - people cannot see the relationship between energy and population. we have temporarily extend the world's carrying capacity for human population for two hundred years through the one time use of fossil fuels, when the fossil fuels go this century it will be the end of a lot of things. in my lifetime i will see the end of the growth economy (you can't have infinite growth on a finite planet), the return to community, local foods, local economy, less travel, and i'll probably be using 90% less energy than presently (whether i like it or not). i give this film the highest recommendation to anyone who wants to understand the crushing triple problem: climate change, end of cheap energy, end of cheap natural resources (water, copper, platinum, indium). the problem isn't global warming. the problem is global warming plus peak oil plus resource depletion. and even if americans do everything right and corporations and the world helps, it may not matter, because the profligate use of energy (not to mention the environmental cost - blanketing irag in tons of depleted uranium that will continue to poison iraq's citizens for 4.5 billion years- making d.u. affected u.s. soldiers end out their lives in diapers and on morphine) by the U.S. military assures that it (more than the rest of us) will make the war on climate change unwinnable unless the war machine is stopped (since WWII we have known that economies stay alive by the stimulation of a raging war, so expect resistance repackaged again as patriotism). see AK presses great new book (green zone: the environmental costs of militarism by barry saunders). But it starts with Blind Spot. get a copy and share it with others.
Summary of Blind Spot
BLIND SPOT is a documentary that establishes the inextricable link between the energy we use, the way we run our economy and the effect it has had on our environment. Taking as a starting point the inevitable energy depletion scenario know as Peak Oil it demonstrates we are at a crossroad of two paths, both with dire consequences. If we continue to burn fossil fuels our ecology will collapse, but if we don?t, our economy will. Either path we choose will have a profound effect on our way of life.Similar DVD Movies
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