Crude Impact

Crude Impact is a 2006 film written and directed by James Jandak Wood. It is a documentary about the effect of fossil fuels on issues such as global warming, the environmental crisis, society and the questionable practices of oil companies
Arresting in its honesty and erudition, CRUDE IMPACT
examines the catastrophic prospect of ''world peak oil''
- or the point in time when the quantity of petroleum
extracted from the earth begins to irreversibly decline.
The film illuminates a vicious cycle of escalating
dependency and need, as well as the behaviors and
patterns fueling this cycle, such as consumer fetishism
and the myth of endless supply, the tremendous rise in
population, and the demands of many more
quickly-industrializing nations. It also surveys the
devastating and far-reaching effects of the rampant
pursuit of oil, including increasingly aggressive
political turmoil, irreparable ecological damage,
economic turbulence, and gross human rights violations.
Journeying from the West African delta region to the heart of the Amazon rainforest, from Washington to Shanghai, and from early man to the unknown future, Crude Impact chronicles the collision of our insatiable appetite for oil with the rights and livelihoods of indigenous cultures, other species and the planet itself.