Reflective Blog on Movie, End of Suburbia.

Last week Friday, we watched a movie called "The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream" during Global Ethics. After I watched this movie, I really had no ideas of what the movie was talking about, but I kind of got the ideas of the suburbanization and oil crisis. As global warming is going worse, people start finding some ridiculous solutions, such as moving to the countryside, places without polluted air, and buying hydrogen cars, vehicles without oil, etc.

I am shock by these facts, because my parents just bought a house in Jhudong, Hsinchu's countryside three years ago. My parents are always complaining about spending too much money on gasoline, because it is far to go everywhere from our house. Whenever we are out of town, we always have to go to RT- Mart, and buy a lot of food and daily necessaries. It is beautiful here, but it also brings a lot of inconveniences. We also have a Nissan SUV, so it needs more gasoline than that of small cars.

What is happening in the US is actually exactly what is happening in Taiwan. Taiwan's first car corporation started in 1988, called the Formosa Automobile Corporation. During that time, the price of gasoline was really cheap, so everyone wants to fill the gasoline fully. But, during the world gasoline crisis, this car company has closed. And now, the price of gasoline has declined again. People who have cars might just add more and more gasoline during this time, because they never realized there is one-day gasoline is going to run out.

Taiwan is also doing these "Suburbanism" advertising. There are more and more people who want to live on the countryside, but changing the way we live cannot change the fact that natural resources are running out. I also think this is not a sustainable life, because one day if we ran out of gasoline, there is probably not many ways to travel.