The suburbs are a phenomena of the oil age and will be self-abolished as that age it ends. Miles and miles from nowhere with miles and miles of oil-base roads linking them to the outside world. No water or food or jobs, no electricity or waste treatment or culture of their own. These living arrangements are not possible without vast amounts of cheap energy to sustain them and vast fleets of cars and trucks, pipes and wires, to get people and goods in and out.

Where will the people who now live in them go? Many will simply die, others will go into squatters camps on the urban fringe of major cities, some will try to flee to the countryside where they will not at all be welcome. In the end even the massive cities will fail because they too are dependent on massive energy intensive inflows and outflows.

Scale is the key. It's why most of the solutions are no more than delusions. Like the transition to electric cars, expensive to produce, heavy in rare metals, completely dependent on the current cheap oil and coal systems for their viability. We are going back to small scale, small rural hubs, smaller cities, much much less energy consumption. It's as plain as the nose on your face, but since people cannot see the nose on their face they are always looking off to the future, off to the techno dream they have been sold.

Man's great progression from the caves to the stars.