Comments on: Film Review- What a Way to Go http://zone5.org/2007/11/film-review-what-a-way-to-go/ ...on the edge between Nature and Culture Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:18:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Graham http://zone5.org/2007/11/film-review-what-a-way-to-go/comment-page-1/#comment-10837 Graham Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:50:30 +0000 http://zone5.org/2007/11/04/film-review-what-a-way-to-go/#comment-10837 <p>Thanks Carolyn that's a very powerful and clear message you have given.</p> Thanks Carolyn that’s a very powerful and clear message you have given.

]]> By: Graham http://zone5.org/2007/11/film-review-what-a-way-to-go/comment-page-1/#comment-10836 Graham Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:37:17 +0000 http://zone5.org/2007/11/04/film-review-what-a-way-to-go/#comment-10836 <p>Thanks Phonono That is very valuable insight which clarifies the idea that hunter-gathering may not have been as sustainable as is commonly supposed.</p> Thanks Phonono That is very valuable insight which clarifies the idea that hunter-gathering may not have been as sustainable as is commonly supposed.

]]> By: Carolyn Baker http://zone5.org/2007/11/film-review-what-a-way-to-go/comment-page-1/#comment-10834 Carolyn Baker Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:13:57 +0000 http://zone5.org/2007/11/04/film-review-what-a-way-to-go/#comment-10834 <p>If you are left wondering who you would show the documentary to, my answer would be EVERYONE! Bennett and Erickson have provided a structure at the end of every screening for people to move into a talking circle and discuss their feelings. True to one of the main messages of the film, this structure opens the door to beginning the journey to authentic community and no-nonsense support of each other as we prepare for the great smack-down. Please read my article, "The Switch Has Been Flipped: It's Too Late For Solutions" at www.carolynbaker.net.</p> If you are left wondering who you would show the documentary to, my answer would be EVERYONE! Bennett and Erickson have provided a structure at the end of every screening for people to move into a talking circle and discuss their feelings. True to one of the main messages of the film, this structure opens the door to beginning the journey to authentic community and no-nonsense support of each other as we prepare for the great smack-down. Please read my article, “The Switch Has Been Flipped: It’s Too Late For Solutions” at http://www.carolynbaker.net.

]]> By: phonono http://zone5.org/2007/11/film-review-what-a-way-to-go/comment-page-1/#comment-10832 phonono Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:24:27 +0000 http://zone5.org/2007/11/04/film-review-what-a-way-to-go/#comment-10832 <p>"So successful was [agriculture] that it eventually lead to the formation of cities as we became more and more adept at finding and storing the earth’s resources- wind-power, water-power, eventual coal, oil and gas with which we built the modern world."</p> <p>Cities came before agriculture. The population explosion of the post-glacial age, thanks to the availability of megafauna as food source and the wide dispersal of plants led to the ultimate scarcity of wild food and the shift to domesticated food.</p> “So successful was [agriculture] that it eventually lead to the formation of cities as we became more and more adept at finding and storing the earth’s resources- wind-power, water-power, eventual coal, oil and gas with which we built the modern world.”

Cities came before agriculture. The population explosion of the post-glacial age, thanks to the availability of megafauna as food source and the wide dispersal of plants led to the ultimate scarcity of wild food and the shift to domesticated food.

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