The End of Suburbia

Before Second World War II, the economic of U.S.A was sharply increasing.

This wealth based on growing industry had invested in suburbia after Second World War II. Many apartments are built in suburbia, causing serious problems such as air pollution. During fifty years, more and more people had moved to suburbia because living suburbia has promised many advantages such as affordability, family life and so on. Consequently, all things, which are necessary for people who live in suburbia, should follow such as school and shopping center.

This suburbia has become American Dream. The American Dream of suburbia life has no future because oil problem. People in the world have used oil to develop in many fields. Building houses in suburbia should be required a high sum of oil.

Many people should buy their own cars to go to work, shopping center and school. Increasing cars caused the government to construct highways. These highways, in turn, increased the number of cars. The government planed to build public transportations such as subway and buses to protect increasing cars by policy and various public facilities regarding gas, electronic, water should be constructed to maintain people’ life in suburbia. Constructing power plants were required to operate public facilities and transportations. However these brought new problems. Much energy is required and it became more and more expensive.

Now, oil produces and consumes at peak but it will decrease more and more. Fossil fuel will be exhausted and this problem returns to people in suburbia. Consequently, American dream will be broken because of fossil fuels.

Many scientists and policy makers have argued and try to solve this problem about fossil fuels. They suggest some solutions such as hydrogen and without cars etc. However, above mentioned are not solutions because of disadvantages. There were disadvantages to use hydrogen. It is difficult to transport and there are other alternative energies such as water – power generation, natural gas, solar energy and then nuclear energy.

In the future, the life in suburbia will change into positive or negative phenomenon by dealing with fossil fuels and adopting new alternative energies.