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What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American lifestyle." What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire is a 2007 documentary film about the current situation facing humanity and the world. It discusses issues such as peak oil, climate change and the effects of global warming, population overshoot and species extinction, as well as how this situation has developed. The documentary features supporting data and interviews of Daniel Quinn, environmental activist Derrick Jensen and academics such as Richard Heinberg