End of Suburbia-review and reaction

The documentary "End of Suburbia"  was about how we have "peaked" at the amount of oil that the world has left to consume.  In this documentary it explored how we have come to this "peak", what has brought us to it, and what we are going to have to do about it. 

In summary, the movie discussed how Americans built houses away from the city and created a suburban life.  In this new way of life they were away from the hustle and bustle of the city, but it brought consequences...transportation was necessary.  This marked the greatest issue in conserving oil and the documentary even said, "put us in the wrong direction".  Subarbs wouldn't exist without cheap oil.  Eventually all of the transportation, and oil needed to support the suburban lifestyle has put us in a shortage of oil.  "Normal way of life has come to an end". 

Its no secret that the US depends on oil to survive.  The amount of energy we consume every day is astonishing.  I found this movie to be very educational, and informative.  I was shocked at some of the things that haven't been brought to our attention before, and the documentary posed a good question...why isn't the media informing us of this crisis that will eventually happen?!?  Oil will run out, what are we doing to change our lifestyles...and will it be enough? 

Here is a list of some of the key points that I picked out from the documentary:

• Natural gasses can't be extracted in amounts needed to replace oils.
• We have to grow electricity, or we can't grow our economy-old way of thinking.
• Buying and consuming was in our best interest-but not anymore.
• Walmarts have destroyed interdependency.
• Suburban destiny is a hopeless mess.
• We need to start preparing for a real problem -but how?
• No easy quick fixes to this crisis.
• New urbanism-a solution
• Suburbia will be the "slums of the future".

This documentary will probably be on my mind for a few days, and I might try to cut back on some energy spending...but then in a few weeks I will most likely forget about it and keep on with my normal life.  I'm sure that this is the case with most Americans and our lazy attitudes.  Sad but true.