A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.
James Howard KunstlerNo 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 KunstlerThe ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated into the vertical slums of the late 20th century.
James Howard KunstlerIt is true that we need a consensus to go forward with restoring passenger rail in America, and often a consensus is formed by political action, via government. That is all true. But we have no such consensus, and no one in government or politics these days has the will or the force of personality or perhaps even the understanding of the situation to get on with job of forming a consensus supporting rail.
James Howard Kunstler