Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as "consumers." OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings. And as long as you're using that word "consumer" in the public discussion, you will be degrading the quality of the discussion we're having. And we're going to continue being clueless going into this very difficult future that we face

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

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.

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

Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.

In my view, suburbia in general has very poor prospects. I think it will only become devalued and probably more dangerous. It's chief characteristic was that it represented a living arrangement with no future - and that future is now here.