The Crash Course: The 45 Minute Version

45-Minute Crash Course Seminar

Summer 2009, Boulder, Colorado

Part 1: Introduction (5:13)

Part 2: Exponential Growth (9:41)

Part 3: What is Money? (8:06)

Part 4: Our Energy Predicament (6:35)

Part 5: Our Environmental Predicament (4:18)

Part 6: Our Current Predicaments (8:43)

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Friday, October 23, 2009 marked the one-year anniversary of the completion of the Crash Course. The Crash Course video seminar is my attempt to synthesize—in a coherent, rigorously factual, and easily digestible form—the information that I gathered over a period of five years revealing the interdependence of our economy, environment, and energy systems.

My goal is to shed light on the limits of our present economic model of infinite growth as we increasingly face the realities of a planet with finite resources. I seek to lay out possible paths for our future and to provide people with tools and information so that they will be better able to make informed choices.

The Crash Course has met with rousing success over the past year. Here are some of the highlights:

I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who is a member of the ChrisMartenson.com community for helping to build awareness about the Crash Course among your family and friends and within your local communities. I have been continually amazed by the stories I hear of those who have shared Crash Course DVDs with all of their loved ones or have decided to take the initiative to conduct Crash Course screenings for friends and neighbors. Our team would not have been able to accomplish so much within one year without your dedicated efforts.

It has been an honor to be a part of the community here at ChrisMartenson.com as it has blossomed around the material of the Crash Course. I hope the 45-minute version will reawaken our energies and interest, and, in contributing to a tipping point of awareness, allow us to collectively build towards an enlightened and resilient future.