“We’re literally stuck up a cul-de-sac in a cement SUV without a fill-up” - James Howard Kunstler Global oil peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, Are today’s suburbs destined to become the slums of the future? This is a short version of “The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream”, a documentary about the end of the age of cheap oil. The complete 78-minute version of The End of Suburbia is available on DVD at www.endofsuburbia.com …
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Oh noes!!! My V10 Excursion is ruining the world, and its starting with suburbia!!! rofl…. Good thing my race cars have no catalytic converters and burn leaded race fuel, at least the end will come quickly thanks to me.
Frickin hippies, Green Lies advancing political agenda’s and milking $ out of the people with lies. Such a shame people believe this malarchy.
This makes me want to move to Phoenix, put a big water fountain in my front yard and drive a hummer. Take that *******.
and even when gas was nearly $5 a gallon, did it seriously deter people from driving? no. therefore its still cheap. you will know that gas isnt cheap anymore when most middle class americans start taking the bus to work.
There is only one thing, which could possibly save suburbia and that is working at home. Knowing technologies of today and the fact that most jobs involve sitting in front of computer all day, this could be easily achieved, yet nobody is considering this option seriously at global scale.
well then if every single urban area in the united states had its very own colorado river, we wouldnt have a problem. oh wait…
Have you ever flown over the suburbs of new Toronto? It’s like identical rows nesting, nesting, nesting by about a million homes. The suburbs are not going anywhere, just changing.
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And which can only provide a fraction of the energy we’re now getting from fossil fuels at best.
All of Las Vegas is all hydro power from the Hoover Dam.
We are the kids.
Tech isn’t energy. Tech doesn’t produce energy. All tech has enabled us to do historically is enabled us to extract and exploit increasingly energy-dense sources of energy from the planet. Well they’re just about all nearly at peak - uranium, coal, oil, and gas. Nothing we have available short of cold fusion, which might not even be possible, can replace more than a fraction of the energy we’re now getting.
Hydrogen is not a source of energy since it takes energy to make.
And which can only provide a fraction of the energy we’re now getting from fossil fuels at best.
There’s solar, hydroelectric, and wind power. All renewable.
It’s nature’s way of saying, “Don’t build your fucking houses here.”
Living in the Suburbs makes me feel like I will end up like those fat people in WallE. But if I want my own house it better come with lot of space. Like enough to grow crops and raise animals. Not some box with a small backyard and front yard. But I still love real city life with all the people around you and the fact that my apartment is above a restaurant and bar.
I **** suburbia because I realized in Southern California corporate developers build these houses on natural habitats in the mountains that are annually prone to wildfires during summer and fall and mudslides during winter and spring.
Amazing video - highly recommended and accurate. It is scary
Say a suburban kid, draw me a Chicken, he will draw you fried chicken wings, or the kentucky fried chicken logo … XD
Suburban children say milk comes from the supermarket. Rural children say milk comes from a cow.
Well said. But then again, we *are* making these comments (you included) on a medium which consumes collectively a fairly high rate of electricity… (not to mention the materials needed to construct said computers, or what the affect is environmentally once they outlive their 3-5 year lifespan and have to be - at this point - thrown away.. )
It’s a catch 22 at this point. Hopefully, clearer heads will prevail & come up with a compromise - or an alternative - to our current way of living.
A reall eye opener. I think we should all go out and rent Mad max3.This is going to be our future. But Just think about it. As human beings are we really considering changing our way of life or do we just watch a doc such as this and ponder for 1/2 hr about our impeding self destruction make grandiose statements and eventually go back on the road to humanities eradication.THINK ABOUT IT !!
I guess now, Africa and other “third world” nations traditional way of village life don’t seem so primitive after all. They have always had the right idea. However our ignorance and arrogance blinded us to that reality. Now, we will learn the HARD WAY.
I hope people pay attention to this!! But because the large majority live in the burbs, they refuse to listen. As there life is just perfect, an hours drive to work, and hours drive home, 30 minutes to the kids soccer match, 30 mins to Wal-Mart and Target, all in the comfort of an SUV. WHAT A FANTASTIC LIFE!!!……NOT!!!
