America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia is, of course, the keystone of OPEC. Saudi Arabia has had the distinction of remaining stable through all the escalating… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years, and most of it is depressing,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The popular story is that America was built by immigrants and that, therefore, everything about immigration is good and leads to a… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are essentially self-organizing emergent systems. The… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
We have created thousands and thousands of places in America that aren't worth caring about, and when we have enough of them,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The quality of life of European cities and towns of almost any size make life in America look not just like a… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
It is true that we need a consensus to go forward with restoring passenger rail in America, and often a consensus is… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The faltering of our suburban living arrangement is probably certain. The response of suburbanites is not. Will they elect maniacs who promise… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy. Accordingly, we present… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
“On my way out of [Atlantic City] at quarter after seven in the morning, a young pump jockey at the gas station [...] mentioned… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
Ahead now, I think you'll see the big nations shrink back into their own corners of the world. I'm not saying we'll see no… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure is the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do it anymore… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
There's a lot of wishful thinking that somehow we'll replace fossil fuels with alternative energy sources, but they remain far from reality. We're not… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done - and… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house correspondingly turns… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share
