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
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 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
I think we'll see a leveling off and then a contraction of population, not a continued upward trend. — 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
In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I think water transport will see a revival. However, we're not going to replay the 20th century. The industrial city of that… — 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
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 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
In my view, suburbia in general has very poor prospects. I think it will only become devalued and probably more dangerous. It's… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
We might hope that the law as a profession does not vanish, because justice may vanish with it - but we could… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
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 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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. We're not… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
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