Film Analysis: The End Of Suburbia

In “The End of Suburbia”, the main purpose of the documentary is to explain the oil crisis as we are nearing the oil peak, and had reach the maximum oil supply in the world. That suburbs will likely fail because of this crisis. The documentary the main point they are trying to state, is that people in America cannot continue living the way, they do in Suburbs. The cost of maintaining that life style, is extremely expensive and not energy efficient, using far too much oil to be considered maintainable.

That the idea of the suburbs will come to the end, if there are no ecological recourses available for people to use, other than fossil fuel and natural gas. The solution given by James Hustler Kunstler, as to make the suburbs more like the cities and small towns, the idea that maybe sounds nice, if you never experienced living in a city. His idea is preposterous, theoretical and reality wise, as the idea of making everything

local and homegrown is only really experience in small isolated communities.
Humans, moved out the cities because of over population, and the pollution. Cities are known to be cramped, dirty, and having high crimes rates. They are not a desired place to live, for those reason. People only living in cities may help re-acquire natural resources, but at the same time, the suburbs were made because people hated the city, and wanted to have a nice piece of land to won and grow a family. While, cities are better for everything being close by, and for having mostly eco-friendlier transportation than suburbs. Truth is most cities in America are quite large and take a lot of time to get across. It would implausible, to expect people to be happy living in a city having to take public transportation, for there commutes. Another point can be said, that owning a house and having a family in suburbs is expensive but living in a city is even more expensive as it hard for people to get by without a large salary in the upper five figures or six figures within a city.
Town are somewhat the same concept s suburbs, in a town most of the food is locally grown, and shared with everyone, but most towns are not with everything in reach, and unlike cities there is no real inner-transportation system. A train station could be a twenty minute walk from one house in one direction, and the supermarket could thirty minutes in another direction, no one is going to walk that much. People are going to owning cars, to be able to transport their lives, to places. Towns are not a place where everything is in reach of each other, and everyone gets along. Being able to have a sustainable job in a town is difficult, and nearly impossible people have to travel out of a town to find work. That what created suburbs in the first place, towns not having any jobs, or colleges close enough to be considered convent. They are better sounding then suburbs but accurately they are the same thing.
What needs to happen is less reliance on the fossil fuels, and natural gas. A new system to work, for what people have, not uprooting suburban culture, to be forced into cities and towns. Simply, because the system we have right now we are running out of resources to abstain our consumption habits. No one is suddenly going to change their lives, or lifestyle until they can no longer afford it. The solution can be found by having renewable energy sources, in place of the fossil fuels and natural gas. To have better public transportation, that is not only available in the extremely dense cities. That making jobs, having their employees stay at home, instead of making a huge commute just to work to save on the gas and emissions cars give out.
Cars are a way of life in America, they are not going to suddenly disappear, from American life. America is giant place, you could but most of Europe inside of Texas, Americans are not going to suddenly change the way they travel to each other, by public transportation to get to their location, especially if it’s a get-away location. America needs it roads, for practicality, as it impossible to make trains be able to go through mountains, and drive though forests. Cars are needed for America vast size, highways makes jobs in America, even if there is a waste of tax dollars to people, like the construction they are doing on Route 21, waste of tax dollars but it makes jobs. It’s a rather simple, construction creates jobs in infrastructure for designers, like architect and civils engineers and builders, like construction workers for the different types of projects.
Cars emissions can be cut down as cars can be more fuel efficient, like they have been making for the past few years.

New types of cars can be made that are fueled by renewable energy, these changes can conserve the natural resources that we have, and don’t require removing the suburbs and relocating everyone to cities and towns. The eco-friendly cars are becoming more popular with people, as they care for the environment. The way to make conservatism work, for keeping the Suburbs living style stay in America life.

Will, all this work it cannot be for certain, as the main change is how much the average America commits in their eco-footprint. If cutting down one person eco-footprint will be enough in the long one, as a small thing good or bad can have a major effect if a lot of people do make that change. Things may happen in the future that brings this change to make suburban life to be sustainable, as well as maintainable for all that live there. Bringing a brighter age for all that is not in cramped cities, or deserted towns for the

future.
Yet, there are several problems people don’t like change until it’s too late, so people won’t accept the change for a better tomorrow. People are selfish, and want their own things, not ready to go out of their way to help others. So the idea, of the suburbs dwindling out is still a possibility, as they do take up a lot of electricity, food, and gas to maintain. The earth is burning out of the fossil fuels and natural gas that makes those thing possible. So something have to give first to make that happen.
The interest of the “The End of Suburbia” was to show the problem with oil peaking, and the catastrophic result of what is happening. Whether the Suburbs are dying out, and what to for to stop it from happening. The solutions for life to still be maintainable for human standards in the America.