We are in for a fiesta of default, repossession, and distress selling of suburban property, much of which will lose its presumed usefulness and monetary value in an energy-scarce economy.

The cities of the future will be much smaller than they are today.

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

Cities like Detroit exist because they occupy important sites. In the case of Detroit, it sits on a river between two great lakes - very important and strategic.

At the heart of our misunderstanding and infantile behavior is the wish for a miracle cure.

The Long Emergency will be chiefly characterized as a "time out" from technology. It could plunge us into a dark age of superstition. My guess is that we will lose a lot of knowledge and skill. But I also believe the human race desperately needs this "time out."

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.