'A Crude Awakening' at the DCA

The DCA (Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre) are screening a Peak Oil film called ‘A Crude Awakening’.
Wednesday 13th Feb at 6-30 pm and Thursday 14th Feb at 8-30 pm.

The blurb is: ‘Like ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ ‘A Crude Awakening’ is devoted to exploring forces that are untying the connective threads of contemporary society. The subject of this documentary is crude oil – specifically, the depletion of petroleum from the Earth. The overtone of the film is speculative but admonitory; Gelpke and McCormack suggest that if western society fails to reinvent itself altogether, economic cataclysm is not simply likely but inevitable. The filmmakers contrast obscenely naïve shorts from the 1950s that promise depthless oil supplies, with contemporary warnings from geologists who suggest that the bottom of the well is close at hand.’

The Dundee Green Party has organised a discussion after the film.
The panel for the post-screening discussion will be:

Shiona Baird - Carbon Reduction Action & Information Centre (CRAIC).
Max Oakes - Civil Engineer representing Depletion Scotland.
Jim Whitehead - Chair, and convenor of the Dundee Green Party.

CRAIC (Carbon Reduction and Information Centre) is a new venture in Dundee, and one of its interests is "Transition Towns". For the time being the e-mail address is recycle@tfcr.org.uk.