James Howard Kunstler

I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.

— James Howard Kunstler

Two decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it.

— James Howard Kunstler

I think we'll see a leveling off and then a contraction of population, not a continued upward trend.

— James Howard Kunstler

It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

— James Howard Kunstler

Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information.

— James Howard Kunstler

Under the current high energy / high entropy regime, sustainable development is a joke.

— James Howard Kunstler

A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that…

— James Howard Kunstler

The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

— James Howard Kunstler

Cities like Detroit exist because they occupy important sites. In the case of Detroit, it sits on a river between two great…

— James Howard Kunstler

Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence.

— James Howard Kunstler

As a long-time registered Democrat who started voting in the year of Watergate, I resent being taken for a ride to the…

— James Howard Kunstler

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…

— James Howard Kunstler

The suburban cycle which began a hundred years ago is nearly over. We are in for a period of contraction and economic…

— James Howard Kunstler

The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we…

— James Howard Kunstler

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

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

Detroit right now is virtually abandoned at its core to the degree that a lot of what had been slums thirty years…

— James Howard Kunstler

“There was nothing like it before in history: a machine that promised liberation from the daily bondage of place. And in a…

— 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…

— James Howard Kunstler

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

— James Howard Kunstler

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

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

I have a new theory of history, which is certain things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time.…

— James Howard Kunstler

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

If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered,…

— James Howard Kunstler

I urge people not to think in terms of "solutions," but in terms of intelligent responses to the quandaries and predicaments that…

— James Howard Kunstler

I’m serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it,

— James Howard Kunstler

For instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores.

— James Howard Kunstler

The claim that Israel seeks to annihilate the Palestinians is simply a lie. Israel seeks to stop rocket attacks and tunnel invasions,…

— James Howard Kunstler

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

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

— James Howard Kunstler

I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it…

— James Howard Kunstler

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

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

My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that…

— James Howard Kunstler

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

— James Howard Kunstler

The economy of the 21st century will come to center on agriculture. Life will be intensely and profoundly local in ways that…

— James Howard Kunstler

History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more…

— James Howard Kunstler

The sentimental view of anything is apt to be ridiculous, but I feel that I have been unusually sensitive to the issue…

— James Howard Kunstler

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