[DesuMaiden]

...for someone interested in learning about peak oil?

As for films, I recommend the following:

1) A Crude Awakening: The Oilcrash
2) Collapse (by Michael Ruppert)
3) Oil Smoke and Mirrors
4) Blind Spot

As for books, I would recommend:

1) Peak Everything: Waking up to the Century of Declines (by Richard Heinberg)
2)Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment

Can you guys think of other good literature and documentaries on peak oil and its socioeconomic impact? The two books I recommend are excellent for understanding peak oil and the general peak everything crisis we are facing.

That's all I have to say for now.

Sincerely DesuMaiden.

[Subjectivist]

Twilight in the Desert, the World Made By Hand, just off the top of my head.

[Apneaman]

The books always provide much greater detail, but I always like the lectures and interviews as well.


Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0R09YzyuCI


Joseph Tainter - The Energy Crisis and the End of The Industrial Age

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBrYLJV9_N8


The End of Suburbia (classic)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu3n2B4B5CQ


James Howard Kunstler - Too Much Magic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqcxnOema_o


Richard Heinberg - Afterburn Society Beyond Fossil Fuels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wPVo4ZzB7M


John Michael Greer - After Progress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzDy01f5CxM


Michael Klare: Finite Resources And The Geography of Conflict -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-cdHIGFrF0


Techno Fix - Why Technology Won’t Save Us Or the Environment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MsUypIHZhc

[aspera]

The Unsettling of America. (1977) W. Berry.

Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change.(2009) D. Holmgren.
http://www.futurescenarios.org

The Localization Reader: Adapting to the Coming Downshift. (2012) R. De Young and T. Princen
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/259623309_The_Localization_Reader_Adapting_to_the_Coming_Downshift

[Hosj]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOMWzjrRiBg

This video is how I was introduced to the issue. Some of the facts are a little out of date but it is reasonably short and easy enough to grasp by anyone. For sharing the issue with people I usually point them to it. The accent and animations are a plus.

[ffkling]

EARTHLINGS- THE MOST MOVING DOCUMENTARY EVER BAR NONE.

[charmcitysking]

The Long Emergency - JHK

Confronting Collapse - MCR

Twilight in the Desert - Matt Simmons