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 don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.

We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more human attention.

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

Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.

I believe most of suburbia is unreformable and will not be fixed.

There is not going to be a "hydrogen economy," and no combination of alternative energy systems or fuels will allow us to continue the suburban pattern. It's finished. We will, however, desperately need to grow more of our food closer to home, and so the preservation of agricultural hinterlands is of great importance. But don't expect the fiesta of suburban construction to continue more than a few more years.