Our only hope is fusion, if we get it before the oil runs out then practically anything is possible. If not then we're fucked, and humanity won't get another shot. Think about that the next time you see someone leaving a 5,000sqft suburban house to commute 30 miles in a gas-guzzler.
This is kind of all due to fiat money and central banking. Without cheap money, real estate would not have ballooned out of proportion to wages, urban sprawl could have been less of a thing. Blame the bankers. Who ironically, will come out just fine on the other end.
Eh, I'd say it's cultural. Sprawl was a thing years before Nixon closed the gold window. Partly the postage-stamp, white picket fence, single-person-vehicle commute on the freeway stuff was pursued out of a natural attraction to novelty, partly it was (like most of what passes for American culture) dreamt up by marketers to drive corporate profit. Turning farmland into suburbs is like owning a cash printing press. Nowadays it's mostly sustained out of a) inertia, and b) the desire among the better-off to find public schools where the average student IQ surpasses 90. That said, the truly massive houses you see going up these days (much of it infill building) are pretty weird and likely a cheap-money byproduct. Does anyone actually want, let alone need six thousand square feet for two adults and maybe one kid?
How is the Tesla play doing puss ? Didn't you supposedly buy furiously at 250 last week ? Still pretending to make money poser... I don't think you even bought shit in the first place, but only a tool would think Tesla is a upside