Wade Mergen will be hosting a series of films dedicated to environmental and sustainability issues.  We will be showing the first part of the ABC documentary "The End of Oil."

The film explores how deeply our current existence depends on fossil fuels, including food production and distribution, and how we might look to the future to deal with the very real possibility of a world without fossil fuels.  The film also exposes the concept of Peak Oil, the point in time when the amount of available petroleum declines irreversibly while demand continues to rise. Experts in the film suggest that we will reach Peak Oil in the year 2007.  Journeying from the West African delta region to the heart of the Amazon rainforest, from Washington to Shanghai, and from early man to the unknown future, this highly-anticipated documentary chronicles the collision of our insatiable appetite for oil with the rights and livelihoods of indigenous cultures, other species and the planet itself.

Free