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The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream is a 2004 documentary film concerning peak oil and its implications for the suburban lifestyle, written and directed by Toronto-based filmmaker Gregory Greene.

Description

The film is hosted by Canadian broadcaster Barrie Zwicker and features discussions with James Howard Kunstler, Peter Calthorpe, Michael Klare, Richard Heinberg, Matthew Simmons, Michael Ruppert, Julian Darley, Colin Campbell, Kenneth S. Deffeyes, Ali Samsam Bakhtiari and Steve Andrews.

In 2007, Greene released a sequel called Escape from Suburbia.

Cast

• Matthew Simmons, as himself
• Richard Heinberg, as himself
• Michael Ruppert, as himself
• James Howard Kunstler, as himself
• Steve Andrews, as himself
• Ali Samsam Bakhtiari, as himself
• Peter Calthorpe, as himself
• Colin Campbell, as speaker
• Dick Cheney, as himself (archive footage)
• Julian Darley, as himself
• Kenneth S. Deffeyes, as himself
• Michael Klare, as himself
• Barrie Zwicker, as host

See also

• Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO)
• The Long Emergency

External links

• Official website
• It's the End of the World as We Know It - film review by the Baltimore Chronicle
• "Running on Empty - The End of Suburbia and the future slums of Irvine" (film review)
• Review Summary - The NY Times
• The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream at IMDb
• The End of Suburbia // The chutry experiment, May 2006
• Post Carbon Institute
• Escape From Suburbia (2007)
• Global Oil Watch - Extensive peak oil library
• Are We Drunk On Oil?

v t e Peak oil
Core issues	Fossil fuel phase-out Hubbert peak theory Predicting the timing of peak oil
Results/responses	1970s energy crisis 2000s energy crisis Global energy crisis (2021–present) Energy crisis Export Land Model Food vs. fuel Hirsch report Oil and gas reserves and resource quantification Permaculture Pickens Plan Price of oil Renewable energy commercialization Rimini protocol Simmons–Tierney bet Simple living Swing producer
People	Albert Allen Bartlett Colin J. Campbell Kenneth S. Deffeyes David Goodstein John Michael Greer Richard Heinberg M. King Hubbert James Howard Kunstler Jean Laherrère Jeremy Leggett Dale Allen Pfeiffer Richard Rainwater Michael Ruppert Matthew Simmons
Books	The Limits to Growth Beyond Oil The End of Oil The Long Emergency Out of Gas The Party's Over Power Down Twilight in the Desert
Documentary films	A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash Collapse Crude The End of Suburbia Escape from Suburbia Fuel GasHole The Oil Factor PetroApocalypse Now? The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire
Organizations	Energy Watch Group International Energy Agency International Renewable Energy Agency Oil Depletion Analysis Centre The Oil Drum OPEC Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries Post Carbon Institute REN21 Transition town
Other peaks	Car Coal Copper Food Gas Gold Minerals Phosphorus Soil Water Wheat Wood

• Film
• Energy
• Society

• 2004 films
• Canadian documentary films
• Documentary films about cities in the United States
• English-language Canadian films
• Documentary films about peak oil
• 2004 documentary films
• Documentary films about urban studies
• 2000s English-language films
• 2000s Canadian films
• English-language documentary films