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This
feature length documentary explores the ravages of American suburban sprawl,
what America has lost as a result, and the perils we face if we don’t change
the way in which we build our cities. Americans have been lulled into
a false sense of security by cheap energy that has allowed us to spread
endlessly into our landscape. We are trapped behind the wheels of our automobiles.
With the demand for oil outpacing the Earth’s ability to supply it, this
suburban living arrangement will fail. America’s love affair with
the automobile is unsustainable and, like Nero, we are fiddling away, confident
that tomorrow will be as promising as today. The wake up call is coming.
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Hon. President
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
…And then finally, and I think most
important of all, more important than
the deficit, more important than
healthcare, more important than
anything, is we have got to do some-
thing about our energy strategy,
because if we permit the climate to
continue to warm at an unsustain-
able rate, and if we keep on doing
what we’re doing ‘til we’re out of oil
and we haven’t made the transition,
then it’s inconceivable to me that
our children and grandchildren will be able to maintain the American
way of life and that the world won’t be much fuller of resource-based
wars of all kinds.
And you really could have, all those Mel Gibson Road Warrior movies
could look more and more like reality 100 years from now.
Speaking in the film:
Sprawling From Grace; Driven To Madness