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.

I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior than the delighted exercise of my rather malicious sense of humor - especially vis-a-vis the horrifying everyday environment we have produced for ourselves. These mall-scapes, burb-scapes, urban wildernesses, starchitect stunts, and other toxic contexts for our daily lives express about every human vice, stupidity, and blunder that it is possible for a society to make. It all leads, really, to a psychological place where only comedy or despair make sense.

For instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores.

Anything goes and nothing matters.

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.

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.

We don't need gold plated highways. We don't need zoning commissions which penalize offices at home and promote car commutes.