Transition Saint Clair Shores holds monthly meeting to educate the public on the most pressing environmental and social issues facing our world. Transition Saint Clair Shores seeks community based solutions to these problems. In October, the meeting will focus on the issue of peak oil and fossil fuel depletion. While we may be able to slighly change the supply of available oil, the key in peak oil is increasing demand for oil. Over the last 100 years, our demanda for oil has increased exponentially. This exponential growth in our demand for oil to grow our economy cannot be maintained indefinitely into the future.
Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their new found wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too has the suburban way of life become embedded in the American consciousness.
Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream.
But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. World Oil Peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, some scientists and policy makers argue in this documentary.
The consequences of inaction in the face of this global crisis are enormous. What does Oil Peak mean for North America? As energy prices skyrocket in the coming years, how will the populations of suburbia react to the collapse of their dream? Are today's suburbs destined to become the slums of tomorrow? And what can be done NOW, individually and collectively, to avoid The End of Suburbia ?
