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The authors and thinkers who featured in this movie are listed, with some of their books, on the What a Way to Go website. We reproduce these here. That website also lists further sources not referred to specifically in the movie. We have not included those here, but have added our own additional sources to supplement their list. These additional sources are asterisked below.
Thomas Berry
The Dream of the Earth
The Great Work: Our Way into the Future
Stephen Boyden*
People and Nature: The Big Picture*
The Biology of Civilisation*
Evolution and Health*
William R. Catton
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
Chellis Glendinning
Off the Map: An Expedition Deep into Empire and the Global Economy
When Technology Wounds: The Human Consequences of Progress
My Name Is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization
Stephan Harding*
Animate Earth*
Richard Heinberg
The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse
The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
PowerDown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World
Richard Holmgren*
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability*
Derrick Jensen
A Language Older Than Words
The Culture of Make Believe
Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests
Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution
Endgame: Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization
Endgame: Volume 2: Resistance
Joanna Macy
World As Lover, World As Self
Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age
Jerry Mander
In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Richard Manning
Against the Grain: How Agriculture has Hijacked Civilization
Reg Morrison*
Plague Species* (Australian title); The Spirit in the Gene* (US title)
Dmitry Orlov*
Thriving in the Age of Collapse*
Stuart Pimm*
The World According to Pimm: a Scientist Audits the Earth*
Ran Prieur*
Critique of Civilization FAQ*
Daniel Quinn
Ishmael
The Story of B
My Ishmael
Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure
The Man Who Grew Young*
Paul Roberts
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World
Paul Shepard*
Coming Home to the Pleistocene*
Joseph Tainter*
The Collapse of Complex Societies*
Complexity, Problem Solving, and Sustainable Societies*
*The authors and books/articles asterisked are our recommendations, supplementing the list on the What a Way to Go website.
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