There has been a lot of speculation about the death of the suburbs over the last year or so including dire predictions on peak oil and what will happen to the economy and the world when we can no longer rely on cheap gas to survive.
Is there any truth to the matter? A quick online search on death of the suburbs returns naysayers, doom and gloomers and links to books on how to regain your spirituality while embracing the suburbanite "culture".
The fact is the 'burbs are a car lovers world. Always have been and for the most part always will be - only thing is car worship is not sustainable. Which of course means that when we do run out of oil whether it is next week or in 100 years we will have to find a better way to get around. Until then necessity is the mother of invention and if there is no need to change we won't. That my dear readers is human nature.
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well, i ride a bike, but when or if we run out of oil i`m quite sure we`ll find another way to rush ourselves around furiosly without care or concern.
it`s our nature as a species that is the issue, not whether we use oil or electricity or pure joy it`s self to run our cars......
but it is important to preserve our community.
places such as brock park need to be kept from the developers and as much as my club, the burlington oldtimers soccer club, and others have tried we see that political will is bought and paid for.
my only hope is that as the north end becomes more developed that property values decline in the south to the point where developers aren`t so willing to build at brock.
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