A History of Oil

Submitted by Joe on July 26, 2006 - 1:48pm.

Found this on Google Video. Don't have a TV so never saw it whenever it was broadcast, but it is a brilliant portrayal of global politics and the future of the planet by comedian Robert Newman (of Newman and Baddiel fame).

Here's the description from the Google Video page

Robert Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years - but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at school, the places oil centre stage as the cause of all commotion. This innovative history programme is based around Robert Newman's stand-up act and supported by resourceful archive sequences and stills with satirical impersonations of historical figures from Mayan priests to Archduke Ferdinand. Quirky details such as a bicycle powered street lamp on the stage brings home the pertinent question of just how we are going to survive when the world's oil supplies are finally exhausted.

So the challenge, as Rob Newman says at the end of the video, is now for us to get off our arses and do something!

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