Wednesday, September 26, 2007

The End of Suburbia

1- Suburbia life style is going to end due to increasing of oil.
2- In the beginning of 1920's, american industry needed much more than human power than the other energy such as oil. Need of human power brought out immigration phenomenon. Industrialisation and immigration cause major problem in the cities. Some of problems were pollution, security, noise and education. These problems made cities unfavorable place to live. Then, the idea of suburbia has generate to ease workers and families of them. Suburbia lifesytle improved so rapiply that more than fifty percent of population move in suburbia. These workers must be transported to cities. Automotive industry and goverments supported to constuct high ways with six lanes. Buying cars, people drove to cities, malls, shops. At last, after peak of oil production, oil reserves have gradually ran out. Hence, the problem of deprivation of energy came out in the United States.
3- Peak of oil has started declining. In 2003, when blackout happened, 55-60 millions american was influenced lack of electricity. According to Mattew Simmons, CEO of Simmons & Co.International, the weather was 95 F and all cooling systems were used at the same time in houses and offices. That situation indicates if population need much more energy, probability of caos will be so close.
I do not believe that media is responsible for this problem. Because, media generally acknowledges all information about decreasing of energy. They published a lot of documentaries.
4- There are following counter-arguments that film-maker deal:
hydrogen energy has developed
many farm lands to produce bio-energy
hearing about run out oil for years, some scientists exaggerated this problem.

5- Richard Heinberg, Journalist, alerts to us, running out oil would cause many wars. He believe that there is no locigal reason to invade Iraq. He says if Iraq had no oil, we would not have been in Iraq. He reminds Carter's statement in 1987 '' use military access to oil in the middle east''

6- James Howord Kunstler, New Urbanist, lecturer and author of Home From Nowhere, declared that United States is going to make manufacturing, home, sport smaller. He expects poor prospect for suburbia because of oil depression. He suggest to change life style.

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