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A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity

August 26, 2015

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity

A documentary about simple living, permaculture, and local economy as a response to global crises.
                                           

The dominant mode of global development today seeks to universalise high-consumption consumer lifestyles, but this has produced perverse inequalities of wealth and – to an extent that is no longer possible to ignore – is environmentally catastrophic. We are called on to take shorter showers, recycle, buy ‘green’ products, and turn the lights off when we leave the room, but these measures are grossly inadequate. We need more fundamental change – personally, culturally, and structurally.

The purpose of the documentary is to envision a way of life that positively responds to the overlapping global crises of climate change, peak oil, economic collapse, and  consumerism. Genuine progress today means building a new, more resilient world based on permaculture, simple living, renewable energy, and localised economies.Most of all, we need to reimagine the good life beyond consumer culture and begin building a world that supports a simpler way of life. This does not mean hardship or deprivation. It means focusing on having enough, for everyone, forever.

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