There's No Tomorrow
There's No Tomorrow is a half-hour animated documentary about resource depletion, energy and the impossibility of infinite growth on a finite planet.
Inspired by the pro-capitalist cartoons of the 1940s, the film is an introduction to the energy dilemmas facing the world today.
"The average American today has available the energy equivalent of 150 slaves, working 24 hours a day. Materials that store this energy for work are called fuels. Some fuels contain more energy than others. This is called energy density."
"Economic expansion has resulted in increases in atmospheric nitrous oxide and methane, ozone depletion, increases in great floods, damage to ocean ecosystems, including nitrogen runoff, loss of rainforest and woodland, increases in domesticated land, and species extinctions."
"The global food supply relies heavily on fossil fuels. Before WW1, all agriculture was Organic. Following the invention of fossil fuel derived fertilisers and pesticides there were massive improvements in food production, allowing for increases in human population.The use of artificial fertilisers has fed far more people than would have been possible with organic agriculture alone."
can someone please give me a detailed summary about this document
So I told my grandma that there was no tomorrow and I started explaining things that were really stupid and then I search up on Google how there’s no tomorrow and then I read it and then she said it’s a freaking movie lol
Condensed geothermal + greenhouses = massive production in little space. Pressured gas concentrates all its heat into less space producing extremely high temperatures. Greenhouses made from waste materials can recycle organic waste into new food, solar heated indoor fish ponds and many other lines of production.
Heavy........
One of the best movie I had ever seen..... I feel that evry1 in the world shld watch this movie..... Only then our future generations will have a better life..
Its women's blind desire to fill bellies with clones. Selfishness will kill us all.
I appreciated this video because for me it was informative and helped me assimilate the bigger picture.However what seems to be the elephant in the room is overpopulation. So all males reaching puberty need to get a vasectomy for the next decade and that may give our planet time to renew it's resources. If Banks can print fiat Gov't can implement planned parenthood. Pro creation must become sustainable,only at the same ratio as our planet can supply required resources. Is this called critical thinking or shall I face a Darwinian condemnation. Then when we find another planet like ours we can go and destroy it as well.
Those that are keeping society like it have been the last decades, is flogging a dead horse.
Be more abstemious and buy (consume) less and of course we need a green revolution and change our technology... It's very difficult but not impossible!
God this is a nauseatingly sophomoric documentary. I would fail this stupid hippie girl and try to get her kicked out of college for such a shallow minded documentary. I cannot even begin to pick this stupid documentary apart because every piece of mindless drivel coming out of her mouth is laughably ignorant of so much thought. She did literally just say one thing that is good and that is that all people should learn to become more self sufficient. Other than that, this is a truly sad documentary done by a freshman at a community college. Devoid of thought and pondering and research and argument and critical thinking. So pathetic.
This documentary is pretty much pure ****. This dumb Irish lady thinks that the world is screwed. She needs to be locked in a library for life until she pulls her head out of her *** and realizes what ECONOMICS is. This is a pretty pathetic documentary about the world's energy needs. The world is bloated with energy supply. Once the price of some forms of energy gets too high, consumers will start paying for other types of energy, and capitalists will respond by increasing supply. This documentary is pathetic.
I cant stress enough how much I despise this documentary and feel the need to come back and comment on it. DR. Michio Kaku said himself, the future of energy is solar, when the price of solar panels come down to meet the price of oil prices they will become the future, also incredible research is being done in carbon nanotubes enabling vast amounts of energy to be stored, that is the battery of the future. So the futre is NOT bleak, its filled with promise, this B.S. doc. is a fear tool used by oil companies to make you consume more.
This is one of the most accessible and informative videos on the subject that I have ever experienced
veryyyy interesting
When are people going to stop calling the USA, America, America is not a country, It's the united states of america. America is the partial name of one of two continents, North America and South America. Manifest Destiny.
This started as a great objective explaination of the problem regarding exponential growth, sad it turns out to be doom propaganda... To bad these kind of docs always ends with concrete "what should one do now". It decreases credibility which in turn makes people doubt the fundamental problem. I believe cultural change is required to stop exponential growth, I don't believe we need a medieval/stoneage society
Some irrational arguments (there were more =)):
"Technology can not be used to produce energy, it can only be used to utilize energy"
True, but there is no need to produce energy. There is only need to utilize energy. E=MC^2 => enough energy => energy shortage is not the problem...
"Electric cars run on electricity, which is powered by fossil fuels, this is not a solution"
Absolutely idiotic argument since electricity don't have to be produced from fossil fuels......
"Get out of debt", "Try to avoid banks", "Support local businesses", "Use local currencies"
Doom propaganda, propaganda from someone that have been at too many greenpeace partys... It might come true but that would be sad. It will def come true if people follow this guys "advice". It sounds more like the sad consequence of to much exponential growth....
I wonder if he would go for this solution/lifestyle if he found out that his daughter got cancer. Or if he would try to find a solution to the problem, like his ancestors did
@ Charlie Shread
Increasing energy efficiency and using solar, wind, wave, etc is not the answer, not because it isn't perfect, but because it's not the answer. It's a deferment of the answer. Hence the title There's No Tomorrow. As long as mass resources have to be extracted for a mass society, living under authoritarian hierarchy in a mass culture consuming mass quantities, no amount of renewable energy or energy efficiency is going to be 'the answer' in the long run. Technology (no matter how "green" we think it is) is not going to save us.
This is very good, until the "happy ending". It is far too pessimistic.
Jeremy Rifkin's Third Industrial Revolution presents a realistic path which many countries are already taking towards a more sustainable economy.
To say that technology won't solve anything is a complete fallacy - renewable energy technological advancements are happening all the time; solar efficiency, wave technology, and new ingenious solutions of how to capture different sources of energy, etc. This is not an overly optimistic view - it is happening constantly.
The very brief argument against electric cars is shallow and wrong.
If electric cars are integrated into a renewable energy electric smart grid, they would not be a problem.
Many of the manufacturing issues would be greatly reduced when factories start running on electricity from renewable sources of energy, also integrated into the smart grid.
Saying Recycling is not an answer, just because it is not perfect is ridiculous. We just need to improve recycling efficiency and change the materials in which products are made.
Products can become integrated into a Cradle to Cradle model, where almost zero waste is produced, where they don't use materials which cannot be recycled or biodegraded.
Once again, they forgot to talk about one of the most important aspects of unsustainably: demographic growth. More than two children for each woman is very wasteful and need to be stop for a better future in addition to find the new source of cheap clean energies and stop wasting resources.
Fantastic film -well done the prodeucers and editors!
I still say people are being paranoid with a "future" that may not even exist. Enjoy your life and live for today. Quit worrying about the someday that you'll never live to see.
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After reviewing some of the naive comments, I see the result of truth is hard for most to handle.
Fact, when someone tells the truth, first they are confronted by anger, then rage, even bloodshed, and then finally acceptance. The US is still in the anger stage. This film is not about doom. Doom is a term used by ignorant. Those who don't see what is already happening in the US, and around the world, are in fact doomed -- or have their head up their ass. We live on finite planet. If you don't prepare, you will be screwed.
I love this film, all who live on this planet should watch it.
Just because there are many challenges to solve a problem doesn't mean it wont happen. There were many challenges to go to the moon and we still went using 60's technology. People, stop living in fear and believing in doom and gloom, only the rich corporations profit from your fears and exploit them to stimulate consumption.
I work in the arms industry.
It is common knowledge that everything that is in this doc is true and accurate. I have been present where references to these issues, and ones like them, have been mulled over by developers.
If I may, I'd like to add a few additional observations to this discourse.
The growth in human populations and the declines in commodities sustaining them are directly linked.
The world can be said to have too many people but it is not entirely accurate that all its people are alike, similarly dangerous to a future of human life on this limited world. More specifically, the average american uses more resources than an entire African village but whereas Africa could realistically physically support about 5 million more villages, the usa could easily physically host 250 million more consuming mouths. As a result, population culling techniques for use against the 'over-developed world', namely the usa, are actively being discussed. It would be wrong of me to outline these but directing solutions toward the 'minor players' is not wise... nor a wise use of said limited resources so striking the heart of the problem, the population segment that is responsible, is key to a realistic solution.
Keeping people alive costs huge resources whereas making them 'not alive' is low cost and uses few resources and can be accomplished in a tidy fashion allowing existing resources in target regions to be largely undamaged, thus being later utilizable.
This doc clearly demonstrates how the american city model, of highly geographically distributed and disparate living and support areas is vastly unsustainable when compared to older civil patterns such as those in Asia, Europe and the 'under-developed' world. Therefore it makes sense to sweep it away cleanly.
In short, I have heard frequent discussions re. 'culling consumer units' in the unsustainable regions of the world. Since the unsustainable region is the same one that promotes and perpetuates the debt-based currency problem necessitating the treadmill that is 'failed consumerism', the solution strikes two birds with one stone, as it were. Minor ethical judgements aside, there is much to commend the methods being discussed... from a purely technical standpoint alone.
When the time comes, stand outside in the open and the pain will be but transient, is my actual advice.
There are billions of people on this world that do not have lives that are killing the ability of this Earth to support human life.
Is it not right and proper that the minority that are largely responsible are cut back to aid the majority? That's only just, isn't it?