Collapse

The movie collapse, a bluemark film directed by Chris Smith, is a movie that interviews Michael C. Ruppert which talks about the importance of collapse. The movie brings up important key concepts and explains why we have to stop such a disaster from happening. One important issue which interviewer Michael Ruppert states is that we have a problem that we are able to correct, the limitation of oil, Collapse. Ruppert expresses that everything we use today is made of oil. This means tooth brushes, tooth paste, tires, everything. Nothing could replace oil. He stresses that we are at our “peak oil” meaning we have already used up half our oil resources thus we are at our peak and the only way left to go is down. Ruppert comments that the American government has no intention of leaving Iraq. Ruppert states that ethanol fuel is a joke it takes more energy to gain it then they get from it. Hydrogen and electricity are all things oil has to do with. Huge machines are powered by oil which helps obtain oil. If oil was to run out, the Earth’s population will suffer greatly, large famine, riots, suffering will be faced. This will lead to the demand of products going really high and prices to sky rocket fear sly. This causes what Ruppert describes to be a “bumpy plateau”. The demand of products increases and decreases based on the intake of oil.

According Elizabeth Kubler Ross, there are 5 stages of grief. The first stage is Denial; the world has already passed that stage. The world was denying that peak oil will ever happen. The second stage is anger. Many parts of the world have already passed this stage; where food riots, hunger strikes, some governments are even over thrown. This also means whatever they were told by the government regarding things being ok is largely ignored. The next is the bargaining stage where the government has to step in and say they will truly put an end to the pain. Depression, the next stage, will then fall into place where they realize what is truly going on and how many people suffered in the madness. The last stage is acceptance. This is when we know things are bad now they have to fix it and move on and try not to repeat the same mistake.