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

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

People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to drive a car goes way down, as it will.

I was not a hard-liner against nuclear, because I viewed that as perhaps the only way we might keep the lights on another 25 years. But lately I am on board with Nicole Foss's argument that we will not have the capital or even the social cohesion to build anymore nuke plants.

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

The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.

The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.