Beyond Oil at BEYOND TV
international films: climate change and fossil fuel futures
Beyond Oil: International films & chat about climate change & end of the oil age.
Dr Octagon, The trees are dying (3 mins)
A hip-hop view on climate change. watch online
Saro-Wiwa (3mins)
Poet Ken Saro-Wiwa and
eight others were murdered in 1996 because of their non-violent
opposition to Shell's oil extraction operations and gas flaring.
Shell closed (5mins)
Activists transform a Shell station to highlight climate change.
Amazon Oil Pipeline - Pollution, Corruption and Poverty (14mins preview)
Voices from the Ecuador forests on 30 years of oil exploitation.
Oil way to Hell (1min)
Animation on peak energy. watch online
The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (32mins) 
Documents Cuba’s emergency transition to local organic agriculture, renewable energy, and large-scale mass transit. The transition occurred following the Soviet collapse in 1990, when Cuba underwent the loss of over half of its oil imports and survived the transition.details
Feature
Those Who Dance (50mins)
Tells the story of a
small community in Rossport, Co. Mayo, Ireland, who have resisted
Shell's attempts to construct a high pressure gas pipeline and refinery
across their land, which would have potentially devastating
environmental and social consequences. The film compares their situation
to that of the Ogoni people of the Niger Delta, championed by Ken Saro-Wiwa. Watch a short video giving an outline of the situation in Co. Mayo.
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