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Come to this week's Internationalist weekly movie screenings to learn about the environmentally devastating Tar Sands, brought to you by local Croatan Earth First!.
Deep behind-the-scenes into the strip-mined world of Alberta, Canada, where the vast and toxic Tar Sands deposit supplies the U.S. with the majority of its oil. Through the eyes of scientists, 'big oil' officials, politicians, doctors, environmentalists, and aboriginal citizens directly impacted by 'the largest industrial project on the planet today,' the filmmakers journey to both sides of the border to see the emotional and irreversible toll this 'black gold rush' fueled by America's addiction to oil is taking on our planet.
Watch the trailer here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2010/mar/18/dirty-oil-film-trailer
For more on the film visit http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1486642/
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It's not that America is
It's not that America is addicted to oil per se but rather that humans are addicted to novelty. And because of billions of years of evolution, that's not going to change. Long before oil came onto the scene humans wanted new stuff and more experiences and those urges will contnue long after oil has passed from the scene. Saying that people today are addicted to oil is like saying that people a hundred years ago were addicted to trains or that people a thousand years ago were addicted to horses or that people a hundred thousand years ago were addicted to walking. Humans need new experiences and novel things and they'll continue to try to get them for as long as they exist. The best way for them to achieve that primal need is another question. But just saying "Stop being addicted to oil" isn't going to solve anything. By the way, do you know a new and novel thing that exists because of the human need for new and novel things? Answer: The Internet.