Terrifying TV drama on BBC in UK

albente · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Aug 20, 2004 Posts: 1338

I like Danblooms Sentence by Sentence writing style. In a world of information overkill it is the future of a somewhat cohesive thought

Staying off course:
Another fellow poster writes in his dictum, quote:
Massive Human Dieoff must occur as a result of Peak Oil. Many more than half will die.

Why many more than half instead of all? Please elaborate!

strider3700

Peleg · Heavy Crude Joined: May 20, 2008 Posts: 391

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Ayame

Well I stayed up and watched the first half, mostly because my mother wanted to watch it - she just loves conspiracy stuff. To my surprise Neve Campbell was in it, last time I saw her was in scream. I half expected some guy in a halloween outifit to jump out and start chasing her. Anyway, at one point she got naked with the oil tycoon guy in a little wooden hut after they played about with some methane hydrates in the snow in the arctic (at least that's were I think they were, I wasn't paying much attention). Moving on, the message I got from this docudrama was that if we all held hands, planted trees and signed the kyoto 2 protocol the world would be saved, else civilisation would crash and burn and we would all die. I laughed because kyoto 2 is pathetic and even if countries sign up to these things they all miss the targets anyway. I also laughed when someone on screen said that if they just managed to get the US to sign up China and India would follow hahaha nonsense. They also had some guy called Richard who sounded a lot like Lovelock and talked about the tar sands causing a lot of pollution. I felt bad though when the eskimo babe set herself alight to protest against the destruction of her homeland.

strider3700

hmm I was interested in downloading and watching this but now I'm not too sure. Neve Campbell naked good, Everything else bad. I'm torn.

Perhaps pt 2 will be better?
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buffy · Tar Sands Joined: Nov 24, 2004 Posts: 42

albente · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Aug 20, 2004 Posts: 1338

Ayame

I watched part 2 of 'Burn Up' and here is my summary for anyone possible interested.

I forgot to mention in the first part there was a guy called Mahud running around being chased by the Americans because he had data about the true state of Saudi Arabia's oil reserves which they didn't want revealed (they had shot all his fellow worker to shut them up). The Americans were portrayed in this docudrama as real nasty s****. Holly (Neve Campbell) got in contact with Mahud and got him to meet the oil tycoon to show him the data and lo and behold she actually said it 'this means peak oil is now' and then Mahud said 'no, yesterday'. I was very happy they mentioned the word peak oil.

In the meantime Kyoto 2 negotiations were underway attended by all the important countries of the world, the US didn't want to sign anything despite the UK's pleas (the British were protrayed as upstanding, moral people hehe). The Americans found out that Mahud had been talking to Holly and sadly the American thugs killed her off Sad

- but not before some more hanky panky with the oil tycoon on a hotel roof. Then they went after the oil tycoon and he was pinned on the roof (not the same roof) of a hotel were it was revealed that 'the American's wanted global warming to happen as it would wipe out millions of Chinese/Indians and would be cheaper then a nuclear war'. Well to me it sounded more like cutting your nose off to spite your face as globally warming would surely turn the American grain producing belt into a dust bowl buggering them up too. Anyway, the oil tycoon handed over the data but one of the Americans who had found Holly dead and who was feeling disgusted with himself and his group went down and gave it to the British team and then as the screen panned out at the end you heard reports of oil price increases, people being evacuated to emergency shelters etc. so I guess the British relased the data to the world.....so not a happy ending for once which was commendable.

manu · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jul 26, 2006 Posts: 710

This show is a direct result of all the crop circles in the U.K.
Get out of the cities and grow your own food.

SoothSayer