This documentary is about what would or could happen if and when we exhaust our supplies of fossil fuels, particularly oil. The film examines potential economic and social concerns. The documentary was good. I don't find myself excited about political documentaries, as they are so bias in their creations. I haven't watched a documentary which removed it's own bias to bring full truth, and this is no exception. I would prefer to hear more people speaking in terms of what could happen "if" instead of what WILL happen "if". Still, the film does examine some things that I haven't thought too much about, and cannot speak to much about without spoiling the film.
Some of the propositions in the film regarding the nature of people are fascinating as well. I still am not convinced that we are somehow running out of oil, nor am I convinced we aren't. I am being open minded, waiting on true evidence to be revealed about the particulars. I do believe in the laws of production and consumption, or consuming more than is being produced, but that is the number we need most.
There are many documentaries that would be nice to put in with this one, to give an overall picture of human beings and how we condone ourselves concerning fossil fuels. One other documentary is called "Guns, Germs, and Steel". In that documentary it discuses the keys to successful or progressive cultures. The key was food. If you can minimize the necessities of life, food being the biggest one, it creates more time to be progressive in other areas. If you cannot minimize the amount of time it takes to produce food as a culture, then that culture doesn't progress. In the American culture, we have progressed through many means, and our most current and longest lasting means is by the use of oil. The use of oil has allowed for progression in many ways. We have gone to space, dominated in wars, and expanded modern sciences... all because we have minimized the cost and time of the production of food. Food is at the root of the whole mess, we concern ourselves as a culture with non-essentials, as we have mastered the preparations and costs of food. Now, even the lowest citizen is capable of living better than the upper classes of the past.
If we lose our production of oil, or inflate the costs, we will treat oil as our food, because it feeds our lives in all its desires. Going green isn't the problem, the problem is the human condition. Human being will always infect and rape every means of progression we could ever conjure, green energy or not.
"Blind Spot"
7 / 10
