Cassandras must be three things: prophetic, pessimistic and ignored. Michael Ruppert, a Los Angeles policeman turned independent reporter, fits at least two of those categories. Ruppert, the subject of director Chris Smith’s documentary “Collapse,” warns that industrial civilization is headed for cataclysm as a burgeoning population relies on a dwindling supply of oil and our leaders stand idly by or, worse, actively hasten the disaster.
“The only thing that amazes me is the speed with which things are falling apart,” he says over the course of what amounts to an 80-minute interview, conducted in the basement of an abandoned Los Angeles meat-packing plant. (more)
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