But "BIg Oil" companies, Congress and the Oligarchs are stopping the innovation/creation of Green Energy and the jobs it will create. Until the American people and the world cut back on oil consumption and invading other countries for oil resources and get back in touch with nature and our precious resources, nothing will change:-(
I was a town planner for 10 years. I realized before I quit that the whole "profession" was based on a false economy. Basically, development companies create this false economy by providing donations to assist councils and government departments. It creates a vicious cycle where town planners are unable to carry out their jobs properly and dirty deals are done to ensure that developers get their way and people suffer with lack of parks and open space.
@Stealthkeys77 I believe that false economy ruined every growing city on this world. If you think about it, all the cities are known for their historic centers, we all travel to see them, but no one travels to see the suburbs which are 3 times bigger. Architects,town planners,designers all finish their education to be controlled by some greedy mediocrities. I hate walking to school just because I must look at all the ugliness and know the whole world looks like that or worse.
Remember Peak oil is not true and it's a fraud because what the new world order is doing is going into different countries so they can control oil supplies and restrict oil to the rest of the world. This documentary is very good but peak oil is not true and it is not the reason why the suburbs will end. It's because of the dollar and the nwo controlling other nation's oil supply. This documentary gives us glimse on what to expect to happen in the near future.
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We have the problem here in Canada too, and here your either in an Urban Center (75% of pop. / most in the world) or you live in farmland (25% of pop.). And we still have problems.
Meanwhile here in Australia, the powers-that-be can't turn our countryside into suburbs fast enough. And they have the nerve to call such vandalism "sustainable".
damn, i thot it said 'the end of suburbia porno trailer' i was expecting double entendres about 3-way stops, two way streets, and cul-de-sacs. whither, rule 37?
@1891justin: If you watch this clip in the context of the documentary, he (Michael Ruppert) was not stating this as his personal opinion, but rather the policy of the US government.
@biped19 - Thorium is one of those well it could matter but it doesn't. Fact there isn't even ONE thorium reactor even on the drawing board anywhere in the entire world. Not a single one. So what thorium "could do" doesn't matter.
"AECL said it had investigated the use of thorium as fuel for nuclear power reactors for over 50 years, including tests in a prototype Candu power reactor in Canada, with promising results. Two 728 MWe Candu 6 units are in operation at the Qinshan Phase III plant in China, which is owned and operated by the TQNPC."
"Norway, Russia, and The USA are also looking at thorium fuel cycles and designs for reactors based on them."
@kmarinas86 - Sorry but the Chinese reactors are NOT running on Thorium the Chinese are studying the ability to do so some day. If you can show me a report of an active thorium reactor, please do. Post a link minus the dot comm that youtube takes out and I will figure out what you mean.
When I say on the drawing board I mean a reactor that is planned to be built to run thorium. Studying it and planning an actual reactor are quite different things.
"When I say on the drawing board I mean a reactor that is planned to be built to run thorium. Studying it and planning an actual reactor are quite different things."
Here:
tinyurl(dot)com/ThoriumNTI
tinyurl(dot)com/ThoriumNCL
tinyurl(dot)com/ThoriumPNT
"Not a single one is planned right now."
There's no reason to say that other than to prompt me to prove you wrong.
Everywhere has become the suburbs. And the old inner city neighborhood's residents have the most difficult time getting to the interstate interchanges where all the neccessities of life, food, hardware, clothing(even the f ing Salvation Army has relocated to our Wal Mart big box store area near our chief interstate highway retail and commercial development area)etc are at. Any stores in most American inner cities(NYC not American) are selling shit for three times the price than McBoxStore.
Yea. Damn the Suburbs. Was a social outcast from suburbia and proud of it. Made fun of because I didn't follow trends, never skated, never owned Jordans, and did not worship every new song in the radio. Suburban culture is the worst. A majority of English developed by a Suburbanite comes from cable TV and not the people around them. How else are daughters saying LIKE in every sentence? They here that crap in MTV. Where does Urban slang come from? BET, not the streets.
Look up Thorium Reactor on YouTube. It's better than any carbon source of energy and cheaper and safer than uranium. The reason why not many know about it is because governments can't use it to make nuclear weapons.
@kmarinas86 - Yea well NO ONE is building any Thorium Reactors and not one is even on a drawing board so this is like relying on the Easter Bunny for your future, good luck.
@twoee999 - Well for most people yes and for many smug urbanites that think it doesn't include them, YES, in fact this is going to suck for a long time before things get better for anyone who is unprepared.
we amrcans are not only priveleged enough to have these options, a sign of priveledge is that we can criticize it, most of the world druels when they see the suburbs portrayed in films like "american beauty", "ordinary people" etc. and would see some of us as spitting on our luck,,unfortunately many people are motivated SOLELY by greed and lack loftier goals beyond owning a villa and an SUV, having these goals has motivated most americans to be productive, its only bad if it hurts somenone,
You know, I'm glad that I probably don't have to worry about being caught in a drive by shooting or something, but I can't stand suburban life. Environmental concerns aside, each living arrangement comes with its own bag of problems.
Heh, no one would be saying that even the nuclear energy won't make up for the oil if the nuclear energy development wasn't slowed down for more than 40 years already because of ecofanatics.
surburbia is gonna end because I agree, is just not sustainable...... american cities are dead, you can forget about a nice stroll around the city, sitting in a park while having an ice cream cone while looking at normal people passing by..... this doesn't exist in america, minus overpriced nyc.
Suburbia has killed it all! all u see now is endless rows of houses cheaply made and very expensive, with yards and people isolated inside of them surrounded by a world of plastic wallmart crap!
The majority of us are Hydrocarbon man in order to evolve to the next level we need to learn to do more with less our social skills will have to evolve. Gone are the days where we can use water to the level we currently do especially if we dwell in areas that could never support the megalopolis we see.We need to store water now personal water is going to be key. Currently the R party want to make this look like an enviromental issue and partially it is but eventually peak oil will be known.
This is one of the best movies of all time yet the hardest to watch...I'm 3 years into a 10 year plan to mitigate the effects of peak oil...it's the toughest thing to do..
A Voice from Bulgaria, EU: My grandpa is still alive (thanks god) I am going to explain him why I need to return to where I belong. He will understand and teach me in gardening. BUT meanwhile could you please save some oil for my medical services?! I am gay, I dont have my kids but take care of my relative's. And I want a decent life for me, for them....and decent DEATH. So stop NOW! I need some oil for medical services when I am going to DIE! And our kids need Internet too!
Something nobody seems to talk about is grid roads and street plans, vs freeways, &c. The land around roundabouts, freeways and all of those Goofyesque curvaceous concrete abominations is a waste. I'm sure other cities have roadwork like Deerfoot Trail--a paved ribbon cutting through HUGE tracts of land that are now useless (just grass to mow, water, &c., at great environmental and tax cost). Slower GRID roadplans use land more efficiently. They also reduce bottlenecks (due to accidents, &.).
solar, wind, nuclear, and ethanol cannot make the products that are made from oil like plastic. Food production relies entirely on oil. Oil powered machines are used to plant, plow, harvest, maintain, and transport it. Products made from petroleum like plastic, pesticides, chemicals, paints, etc would be lost. its all an interconnected cycle, everything we rely on in society comes from petroleum. No alternative energy can to replace these materials and neither can it replace oil.
We're also losing farmland to development. This is solely the result of population growth, 2/3rds of which comes from immigration in Canada (far more than 'replacement' levels). As less than 5% of Canada is arable, this is extremely serious. There is also the matter of freshwater supplies, which are VERY precarious, especially in Alberta and the U.S. Southwest. Pie-in-the-sky skyscraper greenhouses and other futuristic daydreaming isn't going to replace dirt and rain.
FACT: 50% of all animal species will be extinct in the next 40 years & humans will be lucky to survive this century. Lets get off YouTube and take some direct action. Copenhagen is looming and this could be one of our last chances!
Its not about suburbs being bad, its about the planning of suburbs!
The suburbs are normally centred far outside areas of high pop, and suburbs are normally commuter belts, the point is residents from burbs have to commute to cities for work and also for shopping centres/malls!! The concept is trying to move away from suburbs and to have employment local! I too grew up in a suburb until it became chewed up by development and ended up with far too many houses for its area! I
Google Pipelineistan and check out the stories on Alternet and MotherJones. They describe very thoroughly how the wars that the USA are starting throughout the middle east are to ensure that Iran's oil ends up going to Europe and Pakistan and India through US controlled pipelines instead of going to Russia and/or China. We should be embracing solar, wind, hydrodynamic, geothermal, and biomass.
Someone calculated that the number of photovoltaic cells required to power the U.S. would cover New Mexico...
The Kennedys & other pro-environmental luminaries fought to keep wind turbines out of Martha's Vinyard. They're ugly, kill birds & bats (due to a hypobaric proximity effect that pops their lungs) & have been linked to health effects in ~20% of the pop.
Fission reactors are simply DANGEROUS.The fusor & dense plasma focus, however, are promising. Especially the aneutronic (P+B) reaction.
Great! That means that spread out across the entire country, placed on top of homes and other building, they wouldn't present a problem or an eyesore. Let's start building them immediately, and stop using oil as soon as possible. I've also heard that if we built a strip of wind turbines a few miles across along the interstate from California to Texas, that could also power the whole country, and since most of that land is sparsely populated and barely used, that is also a good idea.
Butanol (from things like old whey) & methyltetrahydrafuran (corn cobs & whatnot) can be used as gas additives. They have similar specific gravity to gas & your car won't notice. Most importantly, they're made from WASTE--not FOOD!
Zillions of tonnes of green/organic waste (everything from lawn clippings to poopy baby diapers) end up in the landfill. They could be processed into methanol, to be used in industrial Diesel engines. GM even tested unmodified Jimmy buses w/ methanol (+castor oil)...
I agree: energy from waste is less wasteful and more cost effective than energy from food or land that could produce food, and doesn't contribute to food shortages or food price increases. I also think the methane from more landfills should be captured and used for energy, as is being done to a limited extent in a few places.
Unless you're an able-bodied. childless person without any carry-ons, getting around via mass transit is a bitch. The fact that they're union-ridden public monopolies doesn't help. The service sucks & the systems eat up HUGE public subsidies. Half of Calgary's budget, for example, subsidizes CT's red ink-hemmorhaging operations. Privatized operations (e.g., Curitiba, Brasil) seem to work better.
Also, what about evacuations? A 50% carless population didn't do well in Katrina.
You make a good point about mass transit being a pain if you are disabled and/or have children and luggage with you.
But as for evacuation, I don't think that having cars would have helped Katrina so much. Roads get clogged up during emergency evacuations, and because there are so many drivers thinking so many things, it's way more chaotic than if you had just loaded people on buses and trains.
Mayor Ray 'Chocolate City' Nagin let city buses succumb to flooding, rather than requisition them for flood evacuation. His police confiscated the firearms of law-abiding people (not the gangbangers, naturally, who ignore police orders), then went AWOL--leaving unarmed people to fend for themselves against drug dealers and looters. Elderly people were abandoned by nursing home staff and their families to drown.
There was no such breakdown in civil order in rural, 'Redneck' areas of the South.
The main problem with Katrina was that George Bush canceled funding of the levee, probably because he didn't care about the safety of poor black people and New Orleans, which conservatives see as a den of sin.
Instead of dicking-around with biodiesel, they could just burn the old fryer fat, chicken offal, soiled undies, construction lumber scraps, newspapers & sundry yuckiness in coal-fired powerstations. Simple, drop-in way to offset fossil-fuel use.
People need to be independant of social infrastructure to maintain civil society. You need your own food, gun, car, &c. Their 'black' mayor Nagin failed N.O. residents more than FEMA. The best prevention would've been to not build homes in a floodzone.
public services are fine if done and funded correctly, private companies are the ones who got us into the mess we're currently in
not that it really matters, because %80 of America is planned in such a way that using mass public transportation is nearly impossible. How do you run a bus system through a suburb where the housing density is less than 50 people per square mile?
With regard to density, public monopolies, unions and transit, here's a Calgary example: Calgary Transit is forced to cap its use of shuttles (less than half the size of regular buses, using less than half the fuel, paying about half the hourly wage--same cost per passenger, but less CO2 emissions, &c.) to >6% of the fleet, thanks to management having its arm twisted by the Amalgamated Transit Union. These shuttles have even been replaced by ARTICULATED busses, on some routes (NEVER full).
Immigration to North America is THE cause of urban sprawl. Canada, for example, takes in over a QUARTER MILLION immigrants a year.
The Sierra Club is a sellout. They accepted nearly U.S.$100M (from David Gelbaum) to NOT discuss immigration and overpopulation.
Poverty DOES NOT cause high birthrates. This is due to cultural factors. When the Soviet Government introduced mass vaccinations, &c. to Central Asia, the population GREW.
We need to reduce immigration and promote 3rd world birthcontrol.
If developing-world fecundity meets first-world levels of energy consumption, we're all screwed.
There's a good article in this month's Scientific American: "Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?" The problem is still that people in the developing world need to eat as much as 1st-worlders, but are having WAY more babies--& moving onto farmland.
As for 'Pipelineistan', why's nobody mentioning the Russian oiligarchy[sic]'s 'oil-war' (& faked terrorist plot) the Chechenia and Azärbaycan?
I live in a suburban area in NY and immigrants really aren't a problem here, yet we're still consuming so much energy every day to isolate ourselves from each other. We drive EVERYWHERE. I wouldn't be able to walk to school if I wanted to, it's like 5 miles away.
2/3rds of the population growth in Canada is due to immigration. This is WELL above replacement. Many elderly immigrants are coming here, as well (Google "Ruby Dhalla"+"Bill C-428"), negating the actuarial argument. Whatever one thinks of immigrants, the fact remains that population growth is NOT an environmental plus. Regardless of how dense housing is, more agricultural land is developed for housing. Also, there's the matter of finite freshwater supplies (a BIG problem in Alberta & SW U.S.A.).
@doozer125 Maybe to walk in a city, that's not too far, but walking there and back in a suburb with no sidewalks on most fast roads would be dangerous as hell, especially in the winter when it's still dark. It would also take a long time- which, since school for most high schoolers starts around 7/8, would seriously interrupt the student's sleep schedule. Suburbs really are not designed for walkers!
Behind all the truths of this video, I noticed quite alot of Pessimism. There ARE enough renewable and natural resources to support the energy needs of this planet. Oil use does not have to stop completely, but a massive reduction in its use has to stop SOON! Im thinking about 70 or 80% A LEAST. The rest CAN be put up to natural energy resources. It really can.
Thise powered by electric motors. Besides there are more sources of renewable power other than solar, though are Sun is what makes them all possible. Shouldn't the question be how are we going to run them after limited supplies are depleted? Even the fuel for nuclear power plants is limited.
I agree, but conservation is a dirty word. Despite the evidence to the contrary the financial world is still telling every one, you can't conserve and be productive.
I agree, localisation is the only way and has traditional been the way to survive for the human race, but civilisation has had 150 years of bullshit global trade, with identical products criss-crossing the planet churning up finite resources and all for the god of economic indicies. Transportation is one of the most energy intensive activites to be involved in and we have an economic system designed to ensure continual outward growth. I say we stop growing outwards and start growing locally.
It's scary how much we love suburbia. Australia can't get enough of them! I have to admit I personally love suburban living, so to know that within my lifetime it may no longer be viable affects me quite personally. I guess what I'm most scared of is - what happens next? What kind of world will replace the one we have, and will everything be okay when it all comes to a head??
OK is relative. For those who can and are willing to adapt to whatever may come will be OK. Those who expect to keep and pass on the unsustainable keep up with the Jones lifestyle they inherited, may not be OK.
Good riddance. I always hated the suburbs. I was the wierd kid who asked questions like, "why are dandelions weeds?" and "if this is a nice place to live, why aren't there any tourists coming through our neighborhood?". As soon as I had the ways and means, I moved to an urban center, and I live within walking distance of a train station now. If you're not a farmer, you've got no business not being on a rail line.
@istartedi American suburbia killed American cities, I am Colombian and Colombian cities are urban, you walk or bike to the market, the squares have people, you can see street artists, open door cafes, there is life on the city.
My sister is married to an American, when I go see her I become depressed because she lives in this suburbia, row houses that look alike, u need a car to go anywhere, no one on the street.
now i live in europe, it is like colombia when it comes to city design.
@istartedi - I have been prediction the end of suburbia for a few years no on my show and it is coming. Many negative things can be said about suburbia but you sir are a first class idiot. Don't think you are going to skate through this time, it is going to kick your ass too, get prepared now man. Or stay smug and you will be sorry for your arrogance.
I grow my own food in my backyard and drive less than 1,000 miles per year.A condominium owner or apartment dweller would have a hard time growing crops.
In the great depression of the 1930's many Americans had their own family farm or grew crops in their yards.
Densification is not sustainable.I support Lebensraum.
During WWII, London grew 40% of its own food, thanks to the allotment system which turned empty lots and parking areas into gardens. The remaining 60% came from the surrounding countryside close by. The government ran a hugely successful ad campaign urging everyone to grow a garden for victory. The US had a similar massive revolution in thinking once we joined the war as well. Densification can be one answer, if we take cars out of the equation and make smart use out of the space we have.
I don't get extremely anxious about peak oil. When you think of it as the planet's built-in check on global warming (which could potentially cause human EXTINCTION if it keeps getting worse, rather than mere ("mere") catastrophe) it doesn't seem so nightmarish.
Then again this isn't dealing with global warming, but the depletion of limited energy sources. I'm fairly certain depletion can't be called off, as it going to happen sometime.
thats why .. some very stong and rich peole are killing lots of innocent poele in iraw ffganistan.. iran ..to gain the resources...
just anoter puppets masters(obamas) are in charge and they are the same like bushes are... the BILDERBERGS group...
most powerfull people in the world... working yeras on gainning this world to a new world order,,, only one enemy is here for them... RUSSIA... but not only russia.. its us... the people...
People in US need to rise and do a massive relovution..
m an i dont know if you dont think if you write...
what is destabilization for soem time to FREEDOM!! LIFE.... MORAL... NO WARS!!! FOOD!!MEDICAL CAER WITH NO POISONS IN THE PILLS!! wake up!!!!! do a fucking revolution..and six years ago i was right here..and writing this stuff.. not like you thinking that 911 was a terrosit tattack because you cant think!!!!
"They will smell some kind of conspiracy that somebody is to blame for all this"-- yep, that's already happening, people blaming stock speculators, producers, 'Greenies', etc.
I live in the (canadian) suburbs and I see this as nothing but a good thing. It's not like the our houses are gonna get BULLDOZED for not being downtown. If enough people can't afford to drive cars in suburbia, there's going to be a massive swell in people taking public transit, biking, and walking, which will drive a change in infrastructure and allocation of taxes. All of our former suburbs are now being designed with walkable neighbourhoods, bike infrastsructure, and really solid transit!
Legitimate concern blown out of proportion by documentary filmmakers and morons like journalist Howard "Y2K will destroy us all" Kunstler and such qualified people as an INVESTMENT BANKER like Matt Simmons. Hardly any of these people have the credentials to analyze the situation.
If we switched to plug in hybrids and reduced consumption over the course of a decade (including increased funding of wind power onto the grid and natural gas cars) this is no doubt a beatable problem.
read some marx... says that capitalism (like amreican conservatives do it) will always peak and need a war to blow of all the massproduced stuff, and we all know amerika isnt afraid to create enemies and go to war... GG noob USA owned by bad ideology
This has been coming for awhile now. Whether planned or by accident the rising cost of transporting goods is what will bring equilibrium back to local economies, making them viable once more and the better alternative to sending all our good jobs overseas. Importing everything we need will no longer be the cheaper solution to good wages and producing our own goods.
just look at europe, large cities with vast amounts of land between... its not just a fluke design..
plus, not all cities are bad. I live in a great one, our city hall is run on renewable energy, there is no gang warfare, we have lots of trees, i read the local circular paper-- and there is NO MORE drug use than my SMALL HOMETOWN of a meek 13k
green energy will be JUST as profitable as oil, big wigs just need to suck it up and make the investment.
As soon as the guy said that nuclear power won't sustain us I knew this was B.S.
Nuclear power is working out just fine in France. Too bad the "no nuke" hippies put an end to the possibility of living off nuclear power. I blame the death of thousands of coal miners on them.
Actually he is quite right. Nuclear Power is not cheap to build. Without oil to help in running operations Nuclear Plants are going to get harder and harder to maintain.
I don;t want to even get started on the Environmental and Human Health issues, cuz I don;t want to sound like a hippie, but the risks are truth.
What are they talking about? There is no oil depletion, the US is on top of huge quantities of oil. Its all these little tree huggers that will be the doom of us since they don't want drilling lol.
I have to say, the ride was nice while it lasted. It's all totally true though. I grew up in an environment that was bad for, well, basically everything and it's time for change! It's funny how people call Americans dumb. Personally, I think the English are pretty stupid, but I didn't grow up there so OF COURSE it's foreign to me. We grew up with ranch style houses, give me some time to get over that. Jeez people...
maybe a bit paranoid... maybe you are right? but you make you thesis on such a tweaker level. next phase is even more over population on our cities and urban areas. or everyone needs to just fucking relax and ask themselves what's necessary to be happy.
I think it's time for construction of nuclear powerplants on a massive scale with equal effort put into (byt the PRIVATE SECTOR) electric cars to at least help the gas situation. By no means however should the government get involved here as that would be out of their power. This is going to have to be done entirely by the private sector, but the situation is also not as bad as what people are talking about...
Just look at this. This video gets 100,000 views. Yet there's a video in the "Related Videos" list on the right called "JESSICA ALBA uncensored on into the blue" that gets over 1.8 million views. Guess which people consider more important, and then compare that with which IS more important (the issues discussed in _this_ video)...
It seems that people like to talk a lot about "change". But when it comes to *real* change -- change that impacts them personally, changes of themselves, they run away screaming.
i believe that the makers of this movie are quite certain that the powers that be and the various institutions of this nation intend on doing nothing to prevent anything and are capable of solving nothing
"i believe that the makers of this movie are quite certain that the powers that be and the various institutions of this nation intend on doing nothing to prevent anything and are capable of solving nothing "
And so it's time to forget about the government and make the changes ourselves. The government obviously won't change, so wasting one's effort trying to change it is just that: wasting effor that would be better spent elsewhere.
the current problem cannot be solved by building more infrastructure or creating different types of infrastructure. We need to make everyone independent of any type of infrastructure. They only serve to make people vulnerable as a whole and as individuals. I'm talking about both energy and water independence.
travellinman321, I definitely agree. I do sense a turning point coming, though. Americans are -- however slowly -- finally waking up and realizing that our profligate lifestyle is NOT sustainable, never was and never will be.
I keep hearing people complaining about this problem but the funny thing is that I'm sure half these people commenting on here probably drive vehicles with an economy of less than 20MPG. Lol.
Very interesting. I've read some of the comments, and I see that some of us are still holding on to Nuclear as the solution, but what will we do with all the waste that it produces? Secondly, Nuclear can definitely power our homes, public spaces and work places but what about vehicles? What about the petroleum that we use to make certain kinds of plastics and so on? I think a decent energy mix,i.e: wind, solar, hydro and coal; and conservation are they key.
The peak of oil discovery happened like 10 years ago you ignorant dipshit. All that oil that we wish we reserved in the future had already been found, processed, and is being used in everything we own.
There is a reason that the US hadnt built a refinary since 1976 and thats because US REACHED ITS PEAK PRODUCTION IN 1970.
The reason Peak Oil is not becoming #1 news headlines is because the US goverments intrests wouldnt want to cause a public panic; and create Political Turmoil.
11795255: "The peak of oil discovery happened like 10 years ago you ignorant dipshit. "
Make that 40 years ago. (Google up oil discoveries on Image Search and look at the graphs.) Yes, that's right -- oil discovery peaked 40 years ago. We've pretty much found all the oil there is to find.
We're not running out of energy. We're just not exploring anymore. You can't drill here, you can't refine there, not in my backyard, etc, etc. There hasn't been a refinery built in the US since 1976. Yet strangely, no one stops India or China from exploring, each has a billion + people. We're only 5% of the world's population, the idea that we cannot sustain a functional civilization is simply not true.
We just need to expand our exploration, and put a stop to those who are trying to stop us.
Why are oil companies "not exploring" as you claim? Because most of the large, easy oil has already been found. Sure, exploration will discover more oil, but it will be deep and expensive to extract, and in smaller pockets. We use 3 or 4 barrels for every barrel we find. That is unsustainable. Recent news of huge deposits found in Brazil, for example, only postpone our peak oil by a few months or so.
"5% of the world's population, but 25% of the world's oil consumption. "
So even if we used 0 oil -- what happesn to the other 95% of Earth's population? The world would still be consuming 75% of what it does now, and if they didn't wake up too...
It's gonna run out anyway, it is a NOT renewable source of energy MORON, what they are saying is that at this increasing rate, it will be consumed and we arranged all our things, our economy, our houses, around gas and the dependency of it.
I actually think this will make us better people. Hard times bring people together. Today we all chat over the internet, and for fun we go to the mall, it's grose, yet we continue to do it. Having to actually walk or bike everywhere, and the re-rise of trains and local food and local stores sonds better anyway. We are living to fast and its killing us and making us fat, dumb, and lazy. I'm not scared of the comming changes, i just don't know what would be a benifical college degree.
Yep. And I'd forward it on to all the rest of the globe that wants a similar "lifestyle", not just America. It's stupid China is going for the cars instead of sticking with the bikes. I heard the Chinese are getting fatter...
Hey! My name is Dave Pawsey and I directed the last Sam Roberts video. Check it out as "The End of Suburbia" was a major inspiration! The video is Sam Roberts "Them Kids"
it is built on and requires extensive and widespread violence, coercion, alienation and exploitation. the suburbs are simply expressions of this TAKER culture. and they'll force us to become LEAVER people.
The problems have onlt begun. The US needs to wake up to reality. Do a search on Google: "Restructure America Suburbs" and read the article that was on Financial Sense. Read, think, write, post, act ... before it is too late.
A bit of a tautology in this videos title.
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josepena1127 1 week ago
But "BIg Oil" companies, Congress and the Oligarchs are stopping the innovation/creation of Green Energy and the jobs it will create. Until the American people and the world cut back on oil consumption and invading other countries for oil resources and get back in touch with nature and our precious resources, nothing will change:-(
kdills 2 weeks ago
This video went viral on Mali
jesscarey411 1 month ago
Time to wake the sheeple up.
TheDirtyplanet 2 months ago
I'm doing my part by NOT having children. Why bring more people into a world where they're going to have to deal with this bullshit ??
MrBeautifulba1 6 months ago
I was a town planner for 10 years. I realized before I quit that the whole "profession" was based on a false economy. Basically, development companies create this false economy by providing donations to assist councils and government departments. It creates a vicious cycle where town planners are unable to carry out their jobs properly and dirty deals are done to ensure that developers get their way and people suffer with lack of parks and open space.
Stealthkeys77 6 months ago
@Stealthkeys77 I believe that false economy ruined every growing city on this world. If you think about it, all the cities are known for their historic centers, we all travel to see them, but no one travels to see the suburbs which are 3 times bigger. Architects,town planners,designers all finish their education to be controlled by some greedy mediocrities. I hate walking to school just because I must look at all the ugliness and know the whole world looks like that or worse.
TheBombson 3 weeks ago
30 seconds into the video, I'm thinking, "No shit." God damn, this was like 7 years ago.
nisilisin 10 months ago
Remember Peak oil is not true and it's a fraud because what the new world order is doing is going into different countries so they can control oil supplies and restrict oil to the rest of the world. This documentary is very good but peak oil is not true and it is not the reason why the suburbs will end. It's because of the dollar and the nwo controlling other nation's oil supply. This documentary gives us glimse on what to expect to happen in the near future.
hstone39 10 months ago
This is the film that started it all for me...I've been preparing for Peak Oil for several years now....
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MrDynamicpulse 1 year ago
We have the problem here in Canada too, and here your either in an Urban Center (75% of pop. / most in the world) or you live in farmland (25% of pop.). And we still have problems.
dave19941000 1 year ago
Meanwhile here in Australia, the powers-that-be can't turn our countryside into suburbs fast enough. And they have the nerve to call such vandalism "sustainable".
SPAnsw 1 year ago
suburbia is depressing, when I go to the USA to visit my family I become desperate because I can not go ANYWHERE without a damn car!!
all the perfect lawns and the houses that look exactly the same make me feel like I am living in a massive prison!
TheYaom 1 year ago
damn, i thot it said 'the end of suburbia porno trailer' i was expecting double entendres about 3-way stops, two way streets, and cul-de-sacs. whither, rule 37?
161803 1 year ago
This documentary is awsome, but its predictions are off a few years. I work in the oil industry, and we are several years away from peak oil yet.
TomsFriendKake 1 year ago
didnt you like the part owhen that white piece of shit said, the united states has to control the worlds resources kind of like right now
1891justin 1 year ago
@1891justin: If you watch this clip in the context of the documentary, he (Michael Ruppert) was not stating this as his personal opinion, but rather the policy of the US government.
endofsuburbia 1 year ago
Nonsense, there is plenty of clean(er) nuclear, it called THORIUM.
biped19 1 year ago
@biped19 - Thorium is one of those well it could matter but it doesn't. Fact there isn't even ONE thorium reactor even on the drawing board anywhere in the entire world. Not a single one. So what thorium "could do" doesn't matter.
survivalpodcasting 1 year ago
@survivalpodcasting
"AECL said it had investigated the use of thorium as fuel for nuclear power reactors for over 50 years, including tests in a prototype Candu power reactor in Canada, with promising results. Two 728 MWe Candu 6 units are in operation at the Qinshan Phase III plant in China, which is owned and operated by the TQNPC."
"Norway, Russia, and The USA are also looking at thorium fuel cycles and designs for reactors based on them."
kmarinas86 1 year ago
@kmarinas86 - Sorry but the Chinese reactors are NOT running on Thorium the Chinese are studying the ability to do so some day. If you can show me a report of an active thorium reactor, please do. Post a link minus the dot comm that youtube takes out and I will figure out what you mean.
When I say on the drawing board I mean a reactor that is planned to be built to run thorium. Studying it and planning an actual reactor are quite different things.
Not a single one is planned right now.
survivalpodcasting 1 year ago
@survivalpodcasting
"When I say on the drawing board I mean a reactor that is planned to be built to run thorium. Studying it and planning an actual reactor are quite different things."
Here:
tinyurl(dot)com/ThoriumNTI
tinyurl(dot)com/ThoriumNCL
tinyurl(dot)com/ThoriumPNT
"Not a single one is planned right now."
There's no reason to say that other than to prompt me to prove you wrong.
kmarinas86 1 year ago
@survivalpodcasting
I'm referring to physical Thorium in rocks etc.
biped19 1 year ago
Everywhere has become the suburbs. And the old inner city neighborhood's residents have the most difficult time getting to the interstate interchanges where all the neccessities of life, food, hardware, clothing(even the f ing Salvation Army has relocated to our Wal Mart big box store area near our chief interstate highway retail and commercial development area)etc are at. Any stores in most American inner cities(NYC not American) are selling shit for three times the price than McBoxStore.
emotionalinvalid 1 year ago
Yea. Damn the Suburbs. Was a social outcast from suburbia and proud of it. Made fun of because I didn't follow trends, never skated, never owned Jordans, and did not worship every new song in the radio. Suburban culture is the worst. A majority of English developed by a Suburbanite comes from cable TV and not the people around them. How else are daughters saying LIKE in every sentence? They here that crap in MTV. Where does Urban slang come from? BET, not the streets.
scotplaya 1 year ago
The thought of suburbia in the US makes me feel quite ill .......
Metalcatable 1 year ago
Look up Thorium Reactor on YouTube. It's better than any carbon source of energy and cheaper and safer than uranium. The reason why not many know about it is because governments can't use it to make nuclear weapons.
kmarinas86 1 year ago
@kmarinas86 - Yea well NO ONE is building any Thorium Reactors and not one is even on a drawing board so this is like relying on the Easter Bunny for your future, good luck.
survivalpodcasting 1 year ago
Is this supposed to be bad news?
twoee999 1 year ago
@twoee999 - Well for most people yes and for many smug urbanites that think it doesn't include them, YES, in fact this is going to suck for a long time before things get better for anyone who is unprepared.
survivalpodcasting 1 year ago
Sadly we will remember this movie because the "end of Matt Simmons" happened a while a ago yesterday... he had such great advice...
Cyrus992 1 year ago
we amrcans are not only priveleged enough to have these options, a sign of priveledge is that we can criticize it, most of the world druels when they see the suburbs portrayed in films like "american beauty", "ordinary people" etc. and would see some of us as spitting on our luck,,unfortunately many people are motivated SOLELY by greed and lack loftier goals beyond owning a villa and an SUV, having these goals has motivated most americans to be productive, its only bad if it hurts somenone,
AmericanBandanaStand 1 year ago
so the slums are now in the suburbs?
Boyz n da burbs from now on.
keinaan12345 1 year ago
You know, I'm glad that I probably don't have to worry about being caught in a drive by shooting or something, but I can't stand suburban life. Environmental concerns aside, each living arrangement comes with its own bag of problems.
StickWarrior 1 year ago
Heh, no one would be saying that even the nuclear energy won't make up for the oil if the nuclear energy development wasn't slowed down for more than 40 years already because of ecofanatics.
PinkyKillerCat 1 year ago
Future growth is not posible
redline601 1 year ago
surburbia is gonna end because I agree, is just not sustainable...... american cities are dead, you can forget about a nice stroll around the city, sitting in a park while having an ice cream cone while looking at normal people passing by..... this doesn't exist in america, minus overpriced nyc.
Suburbia has killed it all! all u see now is endless rows of houses cheaply made and very expensive, with yards and people isolated inside of them surrounded by a world of plastic wallmart crap!
andyobby 1 year ago
@andyobby yeah, that's pretty much most of the world. Driven by an endless desire to consume and 'progress'
fishslappedface 1 year ago
The majority of us are Hydrocarbon man in order to evolve to the next level we need to learn to do more with less our social skills will have to evolve. Gone are the days where we can use water to the level we currently do especially if we dwell in areas that could never support the megalopolis we see.We need to store water now personal water is going to be key. Currently the R party want to make this look like an enviromental issue and partially it is but eventually peak oil will be known.
cdltpx 1 year ago
This is one of the best movies of all time yet the hardest to watch...I'm 3 years into a 10 year plan to mitigate the effects of peak oil...it's the toughest thing to do..
MrEnergyCzar 1 year ago
A Voice from Bulgaria, EU: My grandpa is still alive (thanks god) I am going to explain him why I need to return to where I belong. He will understand and teach me in gardening. BUT meanwhile could you please save some oil for my medical services?! I am gay, I dont have my kids but take care of my relative's. And I want a decent life for me, for them....and decent DEATH. So stop NOW! I need some oil for medical services when I am going to DIE! And our kids need Internet too!
GlasOtNaroda 1 year ago
stop buying big cars unless u have a good reason.... most of the big cars goes 7km on a liter... while normal or stationcars goes 13-22km on a liter
nicora60 1 year ago
Something nobody seems to talk about is grid roads and street plans, vs freeways, &c. The land around roundabouts, freeways and all of those Goofyesque curvaceous concrete abominations is a waste. I'm sure other cities have roadwork like Deerfoot Trail--a paved ribbon cutting through HUGE tracts of land that are now useless (just grass to mow, water, &c., at great environmental and tax cost). Slower GRID roadplans use land more efficiently. They also reduce bottlenecks (due to accidents, &.).
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montybrandenbeea 2 years ago
solar, wind, nuclear, and ethanol cannot make the products that are made from oil like plastic. Food production relies entirely on oil. Oil powered machines are used to plant, plow, harvest, maintain, and transport it. Products made from petroleum like plastic, pesticides, chemicals, paints, etc would be lost. its all an interconnected cycle, everything we rely on in society comes from petroleum. No alternative energy can to replace these materials and neither can it replace oil.
minasminority 2 years ago
watch a docu called " a farm for the future" its on youtube, talks about growing food sustainably without machinery
brradsullivan 2 years ago
We're also losing farmland to development. This is solely the result of population growth, 2/3rds of which comes from immigration in Canada (far more than 'replacement' levels). As less than 5% of Canada is arable, this is extremely serious. There is also the matter of freshwater supplies, which are VERY precarious, especially in Alberta and the U.S. Southwest. Pie-in-the-sky skyscraper greenhouses and other futuristic daydreaming isn't going to replace dirt and rain.
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intrepidtraveler99 2 years ago
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daisyhotchy21 2 years ago
Nothing can ever be sustainable within the monetary system. Check out the Venus Project.
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daisyhotchy21 2 years ago
BS. it wont be from oil, but from the banksters.
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daisyhotchy21 2 years ago
Hey they showed the four sisters(now demolished) and the Gardiner expressway in toronto and the go train in ontario!
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blahdonjovi24 2 years ago
Suburbia Is Not Coming To An End. Infact I Live In The Suburbs Its MUCH Quieter MUCH Less Pollution (With Trees Anywhere Theres Not Grass Or Housing)
And MUCH Less Traffic, So All You Urban People Need To Shut Your Mouth's
Juggylocko 2 years ago
Its not about suburbs being bad, its about the planning of suburbs!
The suburbs are normally centred far outside areas of high pop, and suburbs are normally commuter belts, the point is residents from burbs have to commute to cities for work and also for shopping centres/malls!! The concept is trying to move away from suburbs and to have employment local! I too grew up in a suburb until it became chewed up by development and ended up with far too many houses for its area! I
dookie2kie 2 years ago 3
@Juggylocko
Do you even know what this trailer is about?
Fossil fuels sunshine. Without them, or a financially viable alternative, suburbia will be unsustainable, without a framework of support.
Think of every store, or restaurant, or gas station being unsustainable in your neighborhood. Understand?
Y2Krashman 2 years ago
we need to find a way to harvest that methane under the sea
ooglebydoogleby 2 years ago
Google Pipelineistan and check out the stories on Alternet and MotherJones. They describe very thoroughly how the wars that the USA are starting throughout the middle east are to ensure that Iran's oil ends up going to Europe and Pakistan and India through US controlled pipelines instead of going to Russia and/or China. We should be embracing solar, wind, hydrodynamic, geothermal, and biomass.
markbaland 2 years ago
Someone calculated that the number of photovoltaic cells required to power the U.S. would cover New Mexico...
The Kennedys & other pro-environmental luminaries fought to keep wind turbines out of Martha's Vinyard. They're ugly, kill birds & bats (due to a hypobaric proximity effect that pops their lungs) & have been linked to health effects in ~20% of the pop.
Fission reactors are simply DANGEROUS.The fusor & dense plasma focus, however, are promising. Especially the aneutronic (P+B) reaction.
acsial 2 years ago
Great! That means that spread out across the entire country, placed on top of homes and other building, they wouldn't present a problem or an eyesore. Let's start building them immediately, and stop using oil as soon as possible. I've also heard that if we built a strip of wind turbines a few miles across along the interstate from California to Texas, that could also power the whole country, and since most of that land is sparsely populated and barely used, that is also a good idea.
markbaland 2 years ago
Also, there are hydrodynamic systems where devices covering a few miles of ocean floor can power entire city the size of Houston, while
desalinating enough water for an entire city at the same time. If we pursue all 3 of these clean, safe, natural, renewable forms of
energy, we could produce enough energy to power our homes, businesses, and vehicles, and have extra energy to sell to other
countries, and stop attacking and occupying other nations for oil reserves and land for pipelines.
markbaland 2 years ago
Butanol (from things like old whey) & methyltetrahydrafuran (corn cobs & whatnot) can be used as gas additives. They have similar specific gravity to gas & your car won't notice. Most importantly, they're made from WASTE--not FOOD!
Zillions of tonnes of green/organic waste (everything from lawn clippings to poopy baby diapers) end up in the landfill. They could be processed into methanol, to be used in industrial Diesel engines. GM even tested unmodified Jimmy buses w/ methanol (+castor oil)...
acsial 2 years ago
I agree: energy from waste is less wasteful and more cost effective than energy from food or land that could produce food, and doesn't contribute to food shortages or food price increases. I also think the methane from more landfills should be captured and used for energy, as is being done to a limited extent in a few places.
markbaland 2 years ago
Use public transportation!- Its not that bad, really!
sonofdrella09 2 years ago 2
I'm curious who downvoted you for such a rational proposal...
The whole civilized world is using public transportation - noone sees it as the threat to their liberties.
Sure enough, the solution lies deeper than that - yet, it would be a small step to a great change.
Redblasphy 2 years ago 3
Actually...it is!
Unless you're an able-bodied. childless person without any carry-ons, getting around via mass transit is a bitch. The fact that they're union-ridden public monopolies doesn't help. The service sucks & the systems eat up HUGE public subsidies. Half of Calgary's budget, for example, subsidizes CT's red ink-hemmorhaging operations. Privatized operations (e.g., Curitiba, Brasil) seem to work better.
Also, what about evacuations? A 50% carless population didn't do well in Katrina.
acsial 2 years ago
You make a good point about mass transit being a pain if you are disabled and/or have children and luggage with you.
But as for evacuation, I don't think that having cars would have helped Katrina so much. Roads get clogged up during emergency evacuations, and because there are so many drivers thinking so many things, it's way more chaotic than if you had just loaded people on buses and trains.
markbaland 2 years ago
Mayor Ray 'Chocolate City' Nagin let city buses succumb to flooding, rather than requisition them for flood evacuation. His police confiscated the firearms of law-abiding people (not the gangbangers, naturally, who ignore police orders), then went AWOL--leaving unarmed people to fend for themselves against drug dealers and looters. Elderly people were abandoned by nursing home staff and their families to drown.
There was no such breakdown in civil order in rural, 'Redneck' areas of the South.
acsial 2 years ago 2
The main problem with Katrina was that George Bush canceled funding of the levee, probably because he didn't care about the safety of poor black people and New Orleans, which conservatives see as a den of sin.
markbaland 2 years ago
Instead of dicking-around with biodiesel, they could just burn the old fryer fat, chicken offal, soiled undies, construction lumber scraps, newspapers & sundry yuckiness in coal-fired powerstations. Simple, drop-in way to offset fossil-fuel use.
People need to be independant of social infrastructure to maintain civil society. You need your own food, gun, car, &c. Their 'black' mayor Nagin failed N.O. residents more than FEMA. The best prevention would've been to not build homes in a floodzone.
acsial 2 years ago
public services are fine if done and funded correctly, private companies are the ones who got us into the mess we're currently in
not that it really matters, because %80 of America is planned in such a way that using mass public transportation is nearly impossible. How do you run a bus system through a suburb where the housing density is less than 50 people per square mile?
DeanMcLean 2 years ago 2
With regard to density, public monopolies, unions and transit, here's a Calgary example: Calgary Transit is forced to cap its use of shuttles (less than half the size of regular buses, using less than half the fuel, paying about half the hourly wage--same cost per passenger, but less CO2 emissions, &c.) to >6% of the fleet, thanks to management having its arm twisted by the Amalgamated Transit Union. These shuttles have even been replaced by ARTICULATED busses, on some routes (NEVER full).
acsial 2 years ago
america will be a failed state by 2018.
pt1200 2 years ago 2
Why do you think that? (I'm not American)
LayLow2K7 2 years ago
Sad but very likely.
BTPossum 2 years ago
Immigration to North America is THE cause of urban sprawl. Canada, for example, takes in over a QUARTER MILLION immigrants a year.
The Sierra Club is a sellout. They accepted nearly U.S.$100M (from David Gelbaum) to NOT discuss immigration and overpopulation.
Poverty DOES NOT cause high birthrates. This is due to cultural factors. When the Soviet Government introduced mass vaccinations, &c. to Central Asia, the population GREW.
We need to reduce immigration and promote 3rd world birthcontrol.
acsial 2 years ago
Do you think, perhaps, we might need to do something about first world over-consumption?
pdhawh 2 years ago
If developing-world fecundity meets first-world levels of energy consumption, we're all screwed.
There's a good article in this month's Scientific American: "Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?" The problem is still that people in the developing world need to eat as much as 1st-worlders, but are having WAY more babies--& moving onto farmland.
As for 'Pipelineistan', why's nobody mentioning the Russian oiligarchy[sic]'s 'oil-war' (& faked terrorist plot) the Chechenia and Azärbaycan?
acsial 2 years ago
I live in a suburban area in NY and immigrants really aren't a problem here, yet we're still consuming so much energy every day to isolate ourselves from each other. We drive EVERYWHERE. I wouldn't be able to walk to school if I wanted to, it's like 5 miles away.
alexxbiznotch 1 year ago
2/3rds of the population growth in Canada is due to immigration. This is WELL above replacement. Many elderly immigrants are coming here, as well (Google "Ruby Dhalla"+"Bill C-428"), negating the actuarial argument. Whatever one thinks of immigrants, the fact remains that population growth is NOT an environmental plus. Regardless of how dense housing is, more agricultural land is developed for housing. Also, there's the matter of finite freshwater supplies (a BIG problem in Alberta & SW U.S.A.).
acsial 1 year ago
@alexxbiznotch
5 miles is TOO FAR!?!? 5 miles is NOT too far. Get a clue.
doozer125 1 year ago
@doozer125 Maybe to walk in a city, that's not too far, but walking there and back in a suburb with no sidewalks on most fast roads would be dangerous as hell, especially in the winter when it's still dark. It would also take a long time- which, since school for most high schoolers starts around 7/8, would seriously interrupt the student's sleep schedule. Suburbs really are not designed for walkers!
bazilisk 1 year ago
"being slef sufficient"
is pure propangada.
we need to unite each another. we more then ever need support by our neighbour to defeat those bullshit documentary made from nwo facist.
monsterrun 3 years ago
fuck you google to delete what you don't like
in comments. google-tube
monsterrun 3 years ago
I NEED SOMEONE TO TALK TO
just moved new area LC
BTfanatic 3 years ago
Behind all the truths of this video, I noticed quite alot of Pessimism. There ARE enough renewable and natural resources to support the energy needs of this planet. Oil use does not have to stop completely, but a massive reduction in its use has to stop SOON! Im thinking about 70 or 80% A LEAST. The rest CAN be put up to natural energy resources. It really can.
encryptedsignal 3 years ago 3
What sort of construction equipment, barges, trains, etc do you know of that can run on solar power?
chubthumper 3 years ago
Thise powered by electric motors. Besides there are more sources of renewable power other than solar, though are Sun is what makes them all possible. Shouldn't the question be how are we going to run them after limited supplies are depleted? Even the fuel for nuclear power plants is limited.
westkan 3 years ago
I agree, but conservation is a dirty word. Despite the evidence to the contrary the financial world is still telling every one, you can't conserve and be productive.
westkan 3 years ago
I agree, localisation is the only way and has traditional been the way to survive for the human race, but civilisation has had 150 years of bullshit global trade, with identical products criss-crossing the planet churning up finite resources and all for the god of economic indicies. Transportation is one of the most energy intensive activites to be involved in and we have an economic system designed to ensure continual outward growth. I say we stop growing outwards and start growing locally.
toastedpiano 3 years ago 4
It's scary how much we love suburbia. Australia can't get enough of them! I have to admit I personally love suburban living, so to know that within my lifetime it may no longer be viable affects me quite personally. I guess what I'm most scared of is - what happens next? What kind of world will replace the one we have, and will everything be okay when it all comes to a head??
AlexGBroughton 3 years ago
OK is relative. For those who can and are willing to adapt to whatever may come will be OK. Those who expect to keep and pass on the unsustainable keep up with the Jones lifestyle they inherited, may not be OK.
westkan 3 years ago
Yeah. Suddenly the material things people care about so much are going to seem kind of stupid and pointless.
BTPossum 2 years ago 4
Good riddance. I always hated the suburbs. I was the wierd kid who asked questions like, "why are dandelions weeds?" and "if this is a nice place to live, why aren't there any tourists coming through our neighborhood?". As soon as I had the ways and means, I moved to an urban center, and I live within walking distance of a train station now. If you're not a farmer, you've got no business not being on a rail line.
istartedi 3 years ago 6
@istartedi American suburbia killed American cities, I am Colombian and Colombian cities are urban, you walk or bike to the market, the squares have people, you can see street artists, open door cafes, there is life on the city.
My sister is married to an American, when I go see her I become depressed because she lives in this suburbia, row houses that look alike, u need a car to go anywhere, no one on the street.
now i live in europe, it is like colombia when it comes to city design.
andyobby 1 year ago
@istartedi exactly! ;)
birgitdeubner 1 year ago
@istartedi - I have been prediction the end of suburbia for a few years no on my show and it is coming. Many negative things can be said about suburbia but you sir are a first class idiot. Don't think you are going to skate through this time, it is going to kick your ass too, get prepared now man. Or stay smug and you will be sorry for your arrogance.
survivalpodcasting 1 year ago
I grow my own food in my backyard and drive less than 1,000 miles per year.A condominium owner or apartment dweller would have a hard time growing crops.
In the great depression of the 1930's many Americans had their own family farm or grew crops in their yards.
Densification is not sustainable.I support Lebensraum.
m9078jk3 3 years ago
During WWII, London grew 40% of its own food, thanks to the allotment system which turned empty lots and parking areas into gardens. The remaining 60% came from the surrounding countryside close by. The government ran a hugely successful ad campaign urging everyone to grow a garden for victory. The US had a similar massive revolution in thinking once we joined the war as well. Densification can be one answer, if we take cars out of the equation and make smart use out of the space we have.
shades1979 3 years ago
I don't get extremely anxious about peak oil. When you think of it as the planet's built-in check on global warming (which could potentially cause human EXTINCTION if it keeps getting worse, rather than mere ("mere") catastrophe) it doesn't seem so nightmarish.
FunnyDigestion 3 years ago
you should check out the doc. global warming doomsday called off.
glawrence9 3 years ago
Then again this isn't dealing with global warming, but the depletion of limited energy sources. I'm fairly certain depletion can't be called off, as it going to happen sometime.
westkan 3 years ago
thats why .. some very stong and rich peole are killing lots of innocent poele in iraw ffganistan.. iran ..to gain the resources...
just anoter puppets masters(obamas) are in charge and they are the same like bushes are... the BILDERBERGS group...
most powerfull people in the world... working yeras on gainning this world to a new world order,,, only one enemy is here for them... RUSSIA... but not only russia.. its us... the people...
People in US need to rise and do a massive relovution..
bonzaipeter 3 years ago
What the fuck would you suggest then? More destabilization?
You're a fucking moron, where were you 6 years ago?
gbCerberus37 2 years ago
m an i dont know if you dont think if you write...
what is destabilization for soem time to FREEDOM!! LIFE.... MORAL... NO WARS!!! FOOD!!MEDICAL CAER WITH NO POISONS IN THE PILLS!! wake up!!!!! do a fucking revolution..and six years ago i was right here..and writing this stuff.. not like you thinking that 911 was a terrosit tattack because you cant think!!!!
bonzaipeter 2 years ago 2
"They will smell some kind of conspiracy that somebody is to blame for all this"-- yep, that's already happening, people blaming stock speculators, producers, 'Greenies', etc.
FunnyDigestion 3 years ago
I live in the (canadian) suburbs and I see this as nothing but a good thing. It's not like the our houses are gonna get BULLDOZED for not being downtown. If enough people can't afford to drive cars in suburbia, there's going to be a massive swell in people taking public transit, biking, and walking, which will drive a change in infrastructure and allocation of taxes. All of our former suburbs are now being designed with walkable neighbourhoods, bike infrastsructure, and really solid transit!
oceaneffex 3 years ago
Good for Canada. Yet, thats not happening here for a while by the looks of things.
TombKaios 3 years ago
Yeah, it's going to be really interesting here in the US to see the Interstates rotting and growing kudzu all over themselves in [X] or so years.
FunnyDigestion 3 years ago
China is already doing the 1 child for 1 family, so I dont think its that impossible.
garthler 3 years ago
Are you a religious person? Or just another idiot who thinks he knows things, that he really doesn't?
blaqkyamboo 3 years ago
I agree, less people, more abortions.
Religious people seem to feel that it is their duty by god to pop out as many children as possible.
Adopt people!
Stop being so damn selfish. Your genes aren't really all that important that they need to be passed on.
There are plenty of needy crack babies to help out.
scherezadefury 3 years ago 2
Thirty years and still an ignorant child.
blaqkyamboo 3 years ago
Legitimate concern blown out of proportion by documentary filmmakers and morons like journalist Howard "Y2K will destroy us all" Kunstler and such qualified people as an INVESTMENT BANKER like Matt Simmons. Hardly any of these people have the credentials to analyze the situation.
If we switched to plug in hybrids and reduced consumption over the course of a decade (including increased funding of wind power onto the grid and natural gas cars) this is no doubt a beatable problem.
rewards1dude 3 years ago
i disagree. i would love to see statistics show that suburbs can't continue (to an extent) if we see a good increase in solar and nuclear energy.
about1time 3 years ago
FUCK YOU!
why do we need to abort INNOCENT babies?
and why specifically Catholics and Mormons?
carloswuzhere101 3 years ago
This is what we've been saying for years!
BlackOakMedia 3 years ago
Quote:
"They will smell some conspiracy that there is someone to blame all for this."
And quess what's happening ?!?!
zoned123456 3 years ago
read some marx... says that capitalism (like amreican conservatives do it) will always peak and need a war to blow of all the massproduced stuff, and we all know amerika isnt afraid to create enemies and go to war... GG noob USA owned by bad ideology
devota 3 years ago
You just used "GG noob" in a political statement. Do you really expect to be taken seriously after that?
If you choose to express an opinion on a serious topic please use the proper tone in your text.
lorddais 3 years ago
This has been coming for awhile now. Whether planned or by accident the rising cost of transporting goods is what will bring equilibrium back to local economies, making them viable once more and the better alternative to sending all our good jobs overseas. Importing everything we need will no longer be the cheaper solution to good wages and producing our own goods.
lorddais 3 years ago
just look at europe, large cities with vast amounts of land between... its not just a fluke design..
plus, not all cities are bad. I live in a great one, our city hall is run on renewable energy, there is no gang warfare, we have lots of trees, i read the local circular paper-- and there is NO MORE drug use than my SMALL HOMETOWN of a meek 13k
green energy will be JUST as profitable as oil, big wigs just need to suck it up and make the investment.
serah663 3 years ago
where is this City?
opelske 3 years ago
we need to be like brazil
moony461 3 years ago
you tell them man!
officerRocelot 3 years ago
As soon as the guy said that nuclear power won't sustain us I knew this was B.S.
Nuclear power is working out just fine in France. Too bad the "no nuke" hippies put an end to the possibility of living off nuclear power. I blame the death of thousands of coal miners on them.
RogueTone 3 years ago
Actually he is quite right. Nuclear Power is not cheap to build. Without oil to help in running operations Nuclear Plants are going to get harder and harder to maintain.
I don;t want to even get started on the Environmental and Human Health issues, cuz I don;t want to sound like a hippie, but the risks are truth.
TombKaios 3 years ago
Oil is a good addiction why would the government stop it. i mean there bring in billion of dollars a mouth :D
alen209 3 years ago
What are they talking about? There is no oil depletion, the US is on top of huge quantities of oil. Its all these little tree huggers that will be the doom of us since they don't want drilling lol.
Nblock487 3 years ago
I have to say, the ride was nice while it lasted. It's all totally true though. I grew up in an environment that was bad for, well, basically everything and it's time for change! It's funny how people call Americans dumb. Personally, I think the English are pretty stupid, but I didn't grow up there so OF COURSE it's foreign to me. We grew up with ranch style houses, give me some time to get over that. Jeez people...
DKNYsexy 3 years ago
Now American folks realize why people in Europe live in small apartments!!! The less you consume the more you save!
StevedMac 3 years ago
Oil isnt the problem, overpopulation creating demands that cannot be met is.
bucksatan1 3 years ago
maybe a bit paranoid... maybe you are right? but you make you thesis on such a tweaker level. next phase is even more over population on our cities and urban areas. or everyone needs to just fucking relax and ask themselves what's necessary to be happy.
beauvorous 3 years ago
I think it's time for construction of nuclear powerplants on a massive scale with equal effort put into (byt the PRIVATE SECTOR) electric cars to at least help the gas situation. By no means however should the government get involved here as that would be out of their power. This is going to have to be done entirely by the private sector, but the situation is also not as bad as what people are talking about...
PRSpl4yer 3 years ago
two thumbs up
Stbuster31 3 years ago
Just look at this. This video gets 100,000 views. Yet there's a video in the "Related Videos" list on the right called "JESSICA ALBA uncensored on into the blue" that gets over 1.8 million views. Guess which people consider more important, and then compare that with which IS more important (the issues discussed in _this_ video)...
mike4ty4 3 years ago
It seems that people like to talk a lot about "change". But when it comes to *real* change -- change that impacts them personally, changes of themselves, they run away screaming.
CHANGE!!!
mike4ty4 3 years ago
i believe that the makers of this movie are quite certain that the powers that be and the various institutions of this nation intend on doing nothing to prevent anything and are capable of solving nothing
omgGYGYGY 3 years ago
"i believe that the makers of this movie are quite certain that the powers that be and the various institutions of this nation intend on doing nothing to prevent anything and are capable of solving nothing "
And so it's time to forget about the government and make the changes ourselves. The government obviously won't change, so wasting one's effort trying to change it is just that: wasting effor that would be better spent elsewhere.
mike4ty4 3 years ago
I have to agree with everything except the fact that they deny that alternate energy can save us. It most certainly can.
TheHamburgler123 3 years ago
the current problem cannot be solved by building more infrastructure or creating different types of infrastructure. We need to make everyone independent of any type of infrastructure. They only serve to make people vulnerable as a whole and as individuals. I'm talking about both energy and water independence.
chikotube 3 years ago
travellinman321, I definitely agree. I do sense a turning point coming, though. Americans are -- however slowly -- finally waking up and realizing that our profligate lifestyle is NOT sustainable, never was and never will be.
cosmicviewer477 3 years ago
I keep hearing people complaining about this problem but the funny thing is that I'm sure half these people commenting on here probably drive vehicles with an economy of less than 20MPG. Lol.
racerboyGTR 3 years ago 2
Very interesting. I've read some of the comments, and I see that some of us are still holding on to Nuclear as the solution, but what will we do with all the waste that it produces? Secondly, Nuclear can definitely power our homes, public spaces and work places but what about vehicles? What about the petroleum that we use to make certain kinds of plastics and so on? I think a decent energy mix,i.e: wind, solar, hydro and coal; and conservation are they key.
cosmicviewer477 3 years ago 2
The peak of oil discovery happened like 10 years ago you ignorant dipshit. All that oil that we wish we reserved in the future had already been found, processed, and is being used in everything we own.
There is a reason that the US hadnt built a refinary since 1976 and thats because US REACHED ITS PEAK PRODUCTION IN 1970.
The reason Peak Oil is not becoming #1 news headlines is because the US goverments intrests wouldnt want to cause a public panic; and create Political Turmoil.
11795255 3 years ago
11795255: "The peak of oil discovery happened like 10 years ago you ignorant dipshit. "
Make that 40 years ago. (Google up oil discoveries on Image Search and look at the graphs.) Yes, that's right -- oil discovery peaked 40 years ago. We've pretty much found all the oil there is to find.
mike4ty4 3 years ago
Filled up my tank today, gas was $4.09 a gallon. Is there any question that the American automobile dependent suburban lifestyle is unsustainable?
andrewdhigdon 3 years ago 2
Look up something called 'The Energy Non-Crisis'
Type in Lindsey Williams. It will come up. Then tell me this peak production bs isnt just a big shcam to drive up prices and line pockets.
jebes909090 3 years ago
We're not running out of energy. We're just not exploring anymore. You can't drill here, you can't refine there, not in my backyard, etc, etc. There hasn't been a refinery built in the US since 1976. Yet strangely, no one stops India or China from exploring, each has a billion + people. We're only 5% of the world's population, the idea that we cannot sustain a functional civilization is simply not true.
We just need to expand our exploration, and put a stop to those who are trying to stop us.
AresXIV 3 years ago
Why are oil companies "not exploring" as you claim? Because most of the large, easy oil has already been found. Sure, exploration will discover more oil, but it will be deep and expensive to extract, and in smaller pockets. We use 3 or 4 barrels for every barrel we find. That is unsustainable. Recent news of huge deposits found in Brazil, for example, only postpone our peak oil by a few months or so.
scientastic 3 years ago 4
5% of the world's population, but 25% of the world's oil consumption.
Ficker2 3 years ago 5
"5% of the world's population, but 25% of the world's oil consumption. "
So even if we used 0 oil -- what happesn to the other 95% of Earth's population? The world would still be consuming 75% of what it does now, and if they didn't wake up too...
mike4ty4 3 years ago
It's gonna run out anyway, it is a NOT renewable source of energy MORON, what they are saying is that at this increasing rate, it will be consumed and we arranged all our things, our economy, our houses, around gas and the dependency of it.
Glinkberle 3 years ago 3
holy shit we're fucked or sure.
elliottbradshaw 3 years ago 3
I actually think this will make us better people. Hard times bring people together. Today we all chat over the internet, and for fun we go to the mall, it's grose, yet we continue to do it. Having to actually walk or bike everywhere, and the re-rise of trains and local food and local stores sonds better anyway. We are living to fast and its killing us and making us fat, dumb, and lazy. I'm not scared of the comming changes, i just don't know what would be a benifical college degree.
TomsFriendKake 3 years ago 5
learn a trade, and there's computers...and repairs -
Leave university to scholars, doctors and scientists -
spending $150,000 on an education with no job is insane -
opelske 3 years ago 5
UNSUSTAINABLE
you hear that americalinks?
wang0fett 3 years ago
"UNSUSTAINABLE
you hear that americalinks? "
Yep. And I'd forward it on to all the rest of the globe that wants a similar "lifestyle", not just America. It's stupid China is going for the cars instead of sticking with the bikes. I heard the Chinese are getting fatter...
mike4ty4 3 years ago
this film is so awesome. everyone in the world needs to see it!
zstowasser 3 years ago 2
Hey! My name is Dave Pawsey and I directed the last Sam Roberts video. Check it out as "The End of Suburbia" was a major inspiration! The video is Sam Roberts "Them Kids"
dodworld 3 years ago
I caught the reference to "In The Suburbs" in the video:
"It's a happy go spending world" on the sign at the mall behind Sam Roberts.
Sweet.
endofsuburbia 3 years ago
Check out Geoff Lawton and Bill Mollison for practical solutions
nicangel2007 3 years ago
CIVILIZATION IS INHERENTLY UNSUSTAINABLE:
it is built on and requires extensive and widespread violence, coercion, alienation and exploitation. the suburbs are simply expressions of this TAKER culture. and they'll force us to become LEAVER people.
my generation is fucked in the 21st century!
mikezephyr 3 years ago 7
Was that Bob Barr in the documentary ?
dusteroo 3 years ago
Check out TED Talks Craig Venter lecture,
he has some cool ideas on how to produce fuel...using engineered bioreactors
clonalmachina 3 years ago
bring it on!, let this fucking unsustainable global economic system collapse,first then can we build a new one.
thailotus 3 years ago 5
Fantastic, now, lets go drill Alaska!
DasGreenCow 4 years ago
The problems have onlt begun. The US needs to wake up to reality. Do a search on Google: "Restructure America Suburbs" and read the article that was on Financial Sense. Read, think, write, post, act ... before it is too late.
HollandParker 4 years ago