The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming down at us.

The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.

Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things

What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure is the failure to manage contraction. It requires a thoroughgoing reorganization of daily life. No political faction currently operating in the USA gets this. Hence, it is liable to be settled by a contest for dwindling resources and there are many ways in which this won't be pretty.

Anything goes and nothing matters.

I think water transport will see a revival. However, we're not going to replay the 20th century. The industrial city of that era will not be revived. Our cities are going to contract. Many of them will contract as a whole but densify at their core.