The End of Suburbia - 52 minute documentary on peak oil

Why HN readers recommended it

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

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

endofsuburbia

Topic

peak oil and suburbia

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2011–2021

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From the original HN conversations

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• Jobs would necessarily have to be much closer to home. The onset of global warming and the oil peak are starting to prove that building economies around suburbs, highways, and long commutes is unsustainable anyway. See this great documentary, "The End of Suburbia": [VIDEO]

• The End of Suburbia is a rabidly biased documentary that takes another perspective on why the suburbs will fail, the cost of oil: [LINK] And in free as in beer, glorious 240p: [VIDEO] It's entertaining and, IMO, well worth watching even if you disagree with …

• There's actually a section in the movie on the subject of electricity: [VIDEO] And later on they discuss hybrids and electric cars specifically. But to be clear, I don't recommend the movie because it's right , but because it asks interesting questions and leads you …