If a bear attacks your camp, you dont have to be faster than the bear. You only have to be faster than the slowest camper.

Americans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that with the ushering in of a new President, all the old problems will disapear, and life will be grand again. They like to think that clean air is possible,and that fresh thinking will set the economy straight. But is anyone prepared for the worst? Michael Ruppert is a different kind of American. A former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter, he predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter “From the Wilderness” at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial. In “Collapse,” Smith stylistically departs from his past films by interviewing Ruppert. Sitting in a room that looks like a bunker, Ruppert recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out the crises he sees ahead. He draws upon the same news reports and data available to any Internet user, but he applies a unique interpretation. He is especially passionate over the issue of “peak oil,” the concern raised by scientists since the 1970s that the world will eventually run out of fossil fuel. While other experts debate this issue in measured tones, Ruppert doesn’t hold back at sounding an alarm. He portrays a future that resembles apocalyptic science fiction. Check out the trailer and decide for yourself if you think the end is near.