The End of Suburbia

After the video on Wednesday on peak oil I began to realize how much of a “cluster-f***” we really are in. That video really has shown how greedy and ignorant our country really is, that we would turn our backs on something like the EARTH in order to live comfortably in our pretty houses with our gas guzzling cars and our over expenditure of material things. They don’t want to hear that gas is running out and in fact the government avoids the subject whenever addressed, but why??? Personally I want to be educated on how to be prepared; what things we can do NOW that will make it less of a catastrophe LATER. As it says in the video, when fossil fuel production declines it is very possible that people will fight over the remaining supply, leading to war and death. Wouldn’t it be better to find different ways of living rather then selfishly fight for a resource we shouldn‘t have even touched in the first place? Fossil fuel in itself has caused so much damage to the earth that we should be happy it is running out, that finally global warming from the vast amount of CO2 being pumped in to the air can finally slow its destruction to the earths ecosystems.
I mean we see those commercials on TV of the polar bears and their lose of habitat but isn’t it ironic that we are giving money to this fund when humans caused this climate change? Think of the drying up of the Amazon or the heat wave in Europe, are these not signs? If we hadn’t released Carbon dioxide, Sulfur dioxide, and Nitrogen oxide in the air these key ecosystems would not have been in this bad of shape, because of the thoughtlessness of oil production people have died from the repercussions. Of course not all the CO2 emissions come from these factories of production but the other sources are either from using that already produced product for fuel or from the deforestation of many forests. We have come to the end of being comfortable that as Professor Hirsch has stated we have to get a little more uncomfortable to deal with the depletion of our resources. Frankly I have no problem growing my own food or buying from a local farmer if it comes to that, I think that everyone just needs to buck up and stop ignoring something that is right in front of us.

The information on fossil fuels can be found here: http://www.solcomhouse.com/fossilfuels.htm

Other causes of CO2 emissions: http://www.eia.doe.gov/bookshelf/brochures/greenhouse/Chapter1.htm

Also watched the show 6 degrees could change the world which was aired on the National Geographic Channel.