"The End of Suburbia" and life as we know it.

Neo liberalism is relying on a society based on fear. Globalization is just a subset of colonialism and exploitation. When will they learn that this is not the way of achieving, or maintaining the status quo. We must learn soon.

We watched "The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Decline of the American Dream" which quickly showed how things are going to have to change in the first world. The first time I watched it was after the big march last winter for the G8 meetings that were taking palce in Montreal. At the time, the discussion was intense and heated because I was in a room full of angry activist types. This time, we watched it in class of mine about suburban fiction. This isn't fiction, it is truth. The rapidity in which we exploit oil and gas and all other natural resources is phenomenal. The movie explained how American geography is constructed around the fact that we have cars. It also explained that the oil reserves are depleting. This will make oil and gas more expensive in the future. Once prices are too high for the majority of the population, all of these suburbs will no longer be able to subsist the way they are now. There are major suburbs and town all along major highways. People commute to work, hours a day, because they can. But this way of life won't be able to survive for very long. We take our actions for granted, and our dreams are the justification. We don't want to change the status quo because we are comfortable. Any shift would mean a questioning of our way of life. But the movie points out so much. Like how international trade relies on expensive cross ocean transport systems. Once the oil is gone, these voyages will be impossible. Thus all of this easy outsourcing we rely on will not longer be valid.

Its strange how so many people won't see this movie, but how crucial it is to understand what needs to happen in the near future.