Government at all levels in the USA right now is engaged in a quixotic campaign to sustain the unsustainable. We're determined to run WalMart, Disney World, the Interstate Highways, suburbia, and an imperial military by other means than oil. We'll squander a lot of dwindling resources in the process.

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

We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more human attention.

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

If the Internet exists at all in the future, it will be on a much-reduced scale from what we enjoy today, and all the activities of everyday life are not going to reside on it.

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

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