There's No Tomorrow (limits to growth & the future)

0:47 INTRODUCTION & OVERVIEW
7:19 ENERGY
17:18 GROWTH
22:19 FOOD
26:38 THE HAPPY ENDING

TNT is a quick journey through oil formation, peak oil, energy, economic growth, and resource depletion. The most important sequence is 17:18, which deals with GROWTH.

FOR STAT PEDANTS: The movie was finished in 2011, released in 2012. Many stats are out of date (OF COURSE), e.g. the 'world solar = 2 coal power plants". And the movie was finished before the fracking bubble took off (it was in fairly early stages as I finished the film). Fracking has of course changed many things, but not the fundamental message of the film = that you cannot grow infinitely on a finite planet. For those who can't grasp this simple fact, skip to 17:18, or watch the stand-alone movie 'To Boldly Grow':

When and if the fracking bubble pops, it will be interesting to see what effects will occur. It seems to have more of the characteristics of a real estate bubble than a shiny new energy source. Time will tell of course.

I'd like to point out that this movie has taken on a life of its own among the 2030 near-term human extinction movement - some of whom have reposted the movie on their own channels, creating the impression that I endorse them. I DO NOT.

I have no connection with the 2030 NTE people, and utterly disagree with their worldview. Had I thought the human species to be heading for extinction by 2030 I wouldn't have spent 7 years working on this film, from which I haven't received a penny. The decline of industrial society and our civilisation is more likely to be a long and shuttered fall, punctuated by periods of apparent recovery (John Michael Greer's 'Catabolic Collapse') not a Big Bang.

US conventional oil production peaked in 1970, the fracking boom notwithstanding. 50 years later, we're still here. The domination of the 'fast-crash' narrative in the peak oil / environmental scenes has done immense damage. Yes, changes can happen quickly, but for the most part, events unfold over decades or longer. Tying a movement (peak oil, environmental activism, etc) to THE EVENT is a recipe for millenarian disappointment.

"Everything takes longer than you think, even when you factor in the fact that you know that everything takes longer than you think".

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[peterwindisch]

Im only 23 and Im just a kid from a little town called Collegeville in Pennsylvania but I dropped my major for enviornmental sciences and biological chemistry. None of my friends want to talk about this. This is scarey but I want to do something. I dont care if theres money in it, I need to do something about this. I dont think I can call myself human if I dont. I love all of you and there will be a tomorrow if we try.

[dumwyteguy]

Might be one of the most important videos ever made

[anarky]

look at the number of views for this video and you will understand why nothing has been or will be done about this

[kristofferkavallin]

Comming back to this every now and then. Such a lovely video. It helps to realize that there are a few select who are sane in this madness, some people accept that limits are an inherent part of reality.

[heliosaurum]

Kenneth Boulding: "Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist."

[walterbz]

this video is way to optimistic. we can't just slip back to the C18th; in the C18th, we had more forests, fish stocks, higher water tables, undepleted soil, easy surface minerals .. and 10x fewer people to share it between.
we are going back to the stone age.

[anlmoon]

very informative, slightly depressing, but very eye opening. Thank you for making this video or sharing it with us!

[daeshaanmoore]

I watch this video every few years just to detox the hopium.

[AutumnCorvidae]

This is the best introductory video I've ever seen to finite world issues.  It explains the facts of our predicament without exaggeration, and does so simply without talking down to the viewer.   I send everyone here when they ask me why I am concerned about the path of our civilization.

[ZeroDebtInvestments]

This video is awesome, and I go back several times to watch it again in order to let the information sink in. It gives us great financial advice.
I know that's it's already 5 years old but it's more relevant today than it was in 2012.

[marijkebolle]

When you see this docu, it's a great motivation to start with permaculture and transition towns ! No time to waste now !!!

[vivalaleta]

I've been aware that it's ridiculous to continuously strive for growth on a finite planet since I was a small child.

[richardallan]

It's weird, it's almost like with all our "smarts" we are still, like all over life, driven by the mindless desire to expand as far as possible.
This is great little film, thank you.

[alexcarter]

Good intro to the Peak Oil problem and the problems with exponential growth. Education being so poor in the USA, this might be the first time most Americans have heard of the concept of exponential growth.

[NewGuyDarren]

What this means for us in the developed world is that things will continue to get more and more expensive. As the video pointed out, people are starving already and that was 2012. We have seen the rise of massive homelessness in America. Its inevitable, I'm afraid.

[pabblesanzoucis]

Thanks so much to the people who made this video!! Short, clear, nice animations. Hope it will change some people's way of thinking. Thank you again!

[MsMikuHatsume]

Unless mankind surrenders to the fact that he lives on a finite planet and that he must live in balance with all of the plant and animal life on the planet, there can never be true happiness. ~Michael Ruppert.

[mattapple]

They should show this in School´s, everybody should see this...

[drkam]

This is an excellent video, absolutely well done. Perfect for kids to watch too.
Thank you for posting!

[seamusgreen]

Mr. King Hubbert was a exelent Technocrat on this matter about Peak of oil. Thank you for his apresentation.