'''The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream''' is a 2004
documentary film concerning peak oil and its implications on the
suburban lifestyle. This film is critical of widespread use of "cheap energy" policies especially in the transportation sector and argues that technological fixes such as
biofuels and
hydrogen are infeasible. According to this film, a major reorganization of
urban land use is needed to decrease transportation; also, some aspects of the global economy will have to be rolled back, such as long-distance shipping of food. Further, this film claims people and organizations will enter a counter-productive and damaging period of denial as the economy restructures to lower energy use.
The film is hosted by Canadian broadcaster Barrie Zwicker and features discussion from
James Howard Kunstler,
Peter Calthorpe,
Michael Klare,
Richard Heinberg,
Matthew Simmons,
Michael C. Ruppert,
Julian Darley,
Colin Campbell, Kenneth Deffeyes, Ali Samsam Bakhtiari and Steve Andrews. The
director is Gregory Greene and the
producer is Barry Silverthorn.
External links
End of Suburbia, The
End of Suburbia, The