[dissimulo]

I also caught the show. I don't think it did anything to make a self-sufficient lifestyle seem more appealing. They found one of the more extreme examples I can imagine of such a lifestyle, although I haven't really looked into eco-villages all that much. Living with some self-sufficient farmers or homesteaders would have been more mainstream and probably more accessible to most viewers.

I just kept thinking, "There's no way I could live with these whiny hippies." I imagine that was about the biggest impact the show had on most viewers.

I did think the dude was a bit of a sissy about the meat. Come on - you can't go 30 days without some cow? On the other hand, I was impressed that a guy from NYC was able to shoot and butcher a rabbit.

[SidneyTawl]

One of the reasons I think the people of this country have lost respect for who they are and what they eat is from how they are feed. Killing an animal and butchering is something I doubt 1% of the public have ever done.

Therefore they have no respect for the animal they are eating and it gave its life for you.

I don't hunt anymore, I do eat like everyone else. I fish, but I don't count that like Meat. Totally different.

I worked in Beef and hog slaughter plants as a teenager. That two is an experience. Luckily they are a little better now and that lady with the Autism who is famous is responsible for that. However other places in the world are beyound belief in their practices. There are still problems with pigs, and chickens and how the control and pen them, but cows are better now, down to design of the pens so they are relaxed and don't know what hit them.

In a Post peak world many people will find a new respect and some will show what utter disrespect they have for the other life on this planet. That conflict will also be a battle in a few years as supplies run shorter and shorter.

Ever chop of a chickens head and be in charge of trapping him under a large washbucket as they recover after the axman has tossed it to the ground. Don't do it and the chicken is off and running all over the place "like a chicken with its head cut off". Carrying a large washbucket and trying to time a catch. he he to be 10 again. ( or not)

Sidney Tawl (Yellow Turtle)

Creator as Chief

[DriveElectric]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissimulo', 'I') also caught the show. I don't think it did anything to make a self-sufficient lifestyle seem more appealing. They found one of the more extreme examples I can imagine of such a lifestyle, although I haven't really looked into eco-villages all that much. Living with some self-sufficient farmers or homesteaders would have been more mainstream and probably more accessible to most viewers.

I just kept thinking, "There's no way I could live with these whiny hippies." I imagine that was about the biggest impact the show had on most viewers.

[dub_scratch]

I caught the show last night and thought it was pretty cool for allot of good reasons. One, they introduced the concept of footprint analysis and demonstrated that Americans use way more resources than what is sustainable. They also touched on petrol depletion in the intro (though not enough, imo)

The low point was they pimped for the hydrogen hoaxsters during one segment. This to me promotes the myth that we are going to be driving cars in the future on "endless" energy without environmental consequences. I would have liked it if the show would have done the opposite and try to crush that fantasy.

I also would have liked it if they would have challenged the two participant's expressed assumptions that oil will not run out in their lifetimes. Surely, some of the residence of Dancing Rabbit are in tune to peak oil and they could have sat down with the two and had a little chat. This show could have been much more interesting if it would have kept a few of the viewing audience up all night with the likely truth of our near future. I'm still waiting for someone in Hollywood to figure out that the shocking truth is entertaining too.

[DriveElectric]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dub_scratch', '
')The low point was they pimped for the hydrogen hoaxsters during one segment. This to me promotes the myth that we are going to be driving cars in the future on "endless" energy without environmental consequences. I would have liked it if the show would have done the opposite and try to crush that fantasy.

[BabyPeanut]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DriveElectric', 'T')he Hu-Manure was enough to turn everyone away from that eco-farm.

[Sunspot]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BabyPeanut', 'W')ow, first Oil Strorm, a lousy beat-around-the-bush docu-drama inspired by Peak Oil and now this, a lousy "reality-based" documentary that's also just a dissapointment for those already in the know and a joke to those who know nothing.

[DriveElectric]

What is so sustainable about getting used veggie oil from fast food restaurants?