No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
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 Image
Under the current high energy / high entropy regime, sustainable development is a joke. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
It's self-evident that we are going to have permanent problems with oil and gasoline and the prime resources that are needed to… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
We could do some household and neighborhood or town wind energy. But even this will run up eventually against the problem of… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Government at all levels in the USA right now is engaged in a quixotic campaign to sustain the unsustainable. We're determined to… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there's no question we're going… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Phoenix and Las Vegas have grim long-term prospects. On top of oil-and-gas problems, they will have terrible problems with water and the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I think the deeper truth is that the Kyoto Protocols will not be followed by anyone really and that, in effect, nothing… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I was not a hard-liner against nuclear, because I viewed that as perhaps the only way we might keep the lights on… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
There's a lot of wishful thinking that somehow we'll replace fossil fuels with alternative energy sources, but they remain far from reality.… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
There is not going to be a "hydrogen economy," and no combination of alternative energy systems or fuels will allow us to… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Peak oil is already upon us. It is destroying our banking system, that is, our system for marshalling capital, and that is… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I believe we are deluded about alternative energy. The key is, whatever we do, we're going to have to do on a… — 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
