A major connection that can be made is through culture shock. The documentary displays this because many people in the world of different cultures live very different lives from first world countries in an energy usage standpoint. Different cultures have different ways and techniques of survival than other cultures. The film stated that Americans consume more energy in their car alone compared to that of a person in a third world country who uses that same …show more content…
Now how that’s applied to the documentary is the fact that the more developed countries are dominant and use more energy for a reason. Third world countries are in the position they are in because of what they have not done to further their advancement in energy usage. The exponential gap mentioned earlier with the average American’s car using more energy annually than an entire family’s energy usage to survive, is a prime example of this. Spencer would see American’s surviving and the third world countries dying as a result of the “survival of the fittest” theory. The division between developed and underdeveloped countries is the strongest evidence in the documentary for Spencer’s or any sociological theorists beliefs displayed in the overall crisis