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How can you kill a planet and still live on it?

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Matt Savinar, www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net , “There’s no way we can continue consuming oil. No one seems to care. How could we be this dumb?  Answer: politics and lies.  People rather enjoy and covet those that lie to give comfort in the short term.

In the second portion of this documentary, I found myself unable to divert my eyes from the ongoing movie while listening to the words of the spokespersons.  Each one wove a different color into the fabric of our undoing, into the future of our children, into the very essence of life on earth.

Derrick Jensen, author of The Culture of Make Believe, “We make believe that we can have infinite human growth and the age of oil will last forever.  We have to make believe that we can kill a planet and still live on it.”

Part 2: Harsh realities humans face in 21st century

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