We're not going to reform our moronic land-use laws, which mandate suburban sprawl one way or another. They're simply going to be ignored when it becomes self-evident that we cannot build stuff that way anymore.

Government at all levels in the USA right now is engaged in a quixotic campaign to sustain the unsustainable. We're determined to run WalMart, Disney World, the Interstate Highways, suburbia, and an imperial military by other means than oil. We'll squander a lot of dwindling resources in the process.

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

Anything goes and nothing matters.

The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well in an energy-starved economy.

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

I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies.