I generally avoid over-population arguments. But there's no question we're in population overshoot. The catch is we're not going to do anything about….

At the heart of our misunderstanding and infantile behavior is the wish for a miracle cure..

We have to make some things for ourselves because the conveyer belt from China is doomed (this process is known as import replacement). We have to do….

Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a ….

The increment of new development will be the single building lot, if we are lucky, and most of the codes that are now enforced will be ignored becaus….

Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel..

The "Green" community, the enviro people, are preoccupied with running all the cars differently. Our techno-grandiosity has us gibbering about high-s….

We don't need gold plated highways. We don't need zoning commissions which penalize offices at home and promote car commutes..

In many places, the zoning prohibits the mixing of retail and residential. This stupidity has been accompanied by stupidities in municipal policy, su….

Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years, and most of it is depressing, brutal, ugly, unhealthy, and sp….

I do not believe we will get to Ray Kurzweil's proposed "singularity" in which human minds meld with machines to produce, in effect, synthetic human ….

What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure is th….

Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of ….

We're still promoting stupid wasteful behavior in agribusiness - everything from ethanol production for cars to genetically modified crops. In commer….

In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands..

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in..

The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale..

The cities of the future will be much smaller than they are today..

Societies get what they deserve, not what they expect..

In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government policy is the way to get thi….

If the Internet exists at all in the future, it will be on a much-reduced scale from what we enjoy today, and all the activities of everyday life are….