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The End of Suburbia - 52 minute documentary on peak oil

endofsuburbia · 579.8K views · 2006-10-27 · 51:44

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Overview

A 52-minute short version of the documentary The End of Suburbia, about peak oil and the end of cheap energy. It argues that American suburbs depend on cheap oil and may become the slums of the future.

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Recommended in threads on suburbs, energy and urbanism as an entertaining, if biased, case for suburbia's dependence on cheap oil.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2011–2021

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pmoriarty · 2019-07 · Recommendation

This might be a good time to mention a documentary called The End of Suburbia [1], which lays out the case for the existence of the suburbs being fueled and sustained by the easy availability of cheap oil and then goes on to forecast the death of the suburbs as cheap oil stops being so easily available. [1] - [VIDEO]

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pmoriarty · 2017-03 · Recommendation

There's a great documentary on this called The End of Suburbia ,[1][2] though the causes for such a collapse are very different in the documentary vs this article. [1] - [LINK] [2] - [VIDEO]

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pmoriarty · 2016-12 · Recommendation

"It's hard to believe that people would panic if the oil price went high, or even sky high. It wouldn't be pretty, sure, probably several industry sectors would die, but I don't see how it would end our world." You might be interested in watching "The End of Suburbia" : [VIDEO]

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