Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.
James Howard KunstlerI abhor the word "consumer." Consumers, unlike citizens, have no implicit duties, obligations, or responsibilities to the common good. It's a degrading term. The use of it degrades the public discussion.
James Howard KunstlerI think we'll see a leveling off and then a contraction of population, not a continued upward trend.
James Howard KunstlerWe have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local main street economies (networks of local economic interdependency).
James Howard KunstlerAnyone who studies the energy predicament understands its connection with the operations of capital - and by this I do not mean capitalism as an ideology, I mean the behavior of acquired wealth and its deployment for productive purpose. (A lot of educated idiots don't understand this, and we waste a lot of time blathering about capitalism.)
James Howard Kunstler