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Synopsis: Follows the account of Lucy, who is born into a society where people are desperate for natural resources, while the global temperature and population are highly increasing.
 
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running cleaner and more efficiently.

Still, we cling to that old habit, oil,

and it's getting harder

and more expensive to find.

From coast to coast,

motorists are searching for relief from

soaring gas prices in California...

We could see a doubling or tripling of

real oil prices, that's after inflation.

We're running out of oil and

we've created a society,

the American way of life is what we call it,

based on the assumption that

oil will be plentiful forever.

The large spread out suburbs

that we've grown accustomed to,

the strip malls,

the big box stores with

their enormous parking lots around them,

all of those have been made possible

because we've had cheap gasoline,

and as energy becomes much more expensive,

you'll see that those areas become

less desirable places to live.

The first time I moved, I was six.

A lot of people were

leaving the suburbs for the city.

There were new jobs,

and you didn't need a car for everything.

My dad was going to work on the

new streetcar system in Miami.

And my mother told me we were going to live

on the top floor of an apartment building.

She said we'd see

the palm trees below us.

I was excited,

but also a little sad to leave.

As the price of oil goes up,

It will ripple through every

part of the global economy.

In Washington today, protesters

demanded an end to rising food prices.

Our agriculture system is almost

wholly dependent on cheap oil.

Tremendous amounts of diesel fuel that

are used in planting and harvesting

and then moving the stuff,

all these vast distances.

By 2015 in the United States,

add about 20 million people to the population

and then just play out what that

does to consumption patterns.

I mean, the, the number of

people that we've got to feed.

There's just basically this slow,

creeping tension for natural resources.

As the American way of life

becomes increasingly unsustainable,

the rest of the world

will be trying to catch up.

The Chinese like cars.

And they like big cars.

You have 14,000 cars out

onto China's roads daily.

Incomes are rising really rapidly.

They're moving into meat-based diets.

You need 10 pounds of grain

to get one pound of meat.

There is simply no way that the rest of the

world can start eating meat the way we do.

If everyone in the world consumed

as much as the average American,

It would take the resources of four Earths

to support the planet's population,

which raises the question,

should the rest of the world consume less,

or should we?

American habits, though,

are hard to break.

We in the US have gotten used

to the idea that we're somehow

immune to natural limits and it's the

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Josh Neufeld

Josh Neufeld (born August 9, 1967) is an alternative cartoonist known for his nonfiction comics on subjects like Hurricane Katrina, international travel, and finance, as well as his collaborations with writers like Harvey Pekar and Brooke Gladstone. He is the writer/artist of A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, and the illustrator of The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media. more…

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