Peak oil is already upon us. It is destroying our banking system, that is, our system for marshalling capital, and that is about to put us out of business-as-usual. So, we have to carry on with business-not-so-usual. This could mean anything from your children finding careers in farming (rather than show biz or plastic surgery) to reorganizing households differently to traveling from New York to Boston by boat.
Motion is a great tranquilizer. - James Howard Kunstler
Motion is a great tranquilizer.
- James Howard Kunstler
As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the abstract… - James Howard Kunstler
As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the abstract…
We might hope that the law as a profession does not vanish, because justice may vanish with it - but we could probably do with far fewer lawyers. Sin… - James Howard Kunstler
We might hope that the law as a profession does not vanish, because justice may vanish with it - but we could probably do with far fewer lawyers. Sin…
It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect. - James Howard Kunstler
It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.
The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible. - James Howard Kunstler
The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.
Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which i… - James Howard Kunstler
Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which i…
We could do some household and neighborhood or town wind energy. But even this will run up eventually against the problem of needing an underlying fo… - James Howard Kunstler
We could do some household and neighborhood or town wind energy. But even this will run up eventually against the problem of needing an underlying fo…
The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually. - James Howard Kunstler
The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.
Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked ci… - James Howard Kunstler
Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked ci…
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