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… — 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 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
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
One thing that I'm predicting is that there will be a vigorous and futile defense of suburbia and all its entitlements, no… — 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
Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that the Great Lakes region will be at the center of an internally-focused North American economy when the hallucination of… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Generations will soon come into their power feeling differently about themselves than we do now, and in their re-enchanted world, they will… — 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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