Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence.

We have to make some things for ourselves because the conveyer belt from China is doomed (this process is known as import replacement). We have to do transportation differently, because mass motoring and even commercial aviation will soon be over. We have to inhabit the landscape differently because both suburbia and the metroplex mega-city will be obsolete, so we will have to return to a more traditional disposition of things in smaller urbanisms associated with productive agricultural hinterlands.

No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it.

Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.

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

I generally avoid over-population arguments. But there's no question we're in population overshoot. The catch is we're not going to do anything about it. There will be no policy. The usual suspects: starvation, war, disease, will drive the population down. There's little more to say about that really, and it's certainly an unappetizing discussion, but it's probably the truth. In any case, we're in overshoot and we face vast resource scarcities.