I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies.
James Howard KunstlerI don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.
James Howard KunstlerWe could do some household and neighborhood or town wind energy. But even this will run up eventually against the problem of needing an underlying fossil fuel economy to fabricate the hardware. Same with photovoltaic (solar) energy. We're going to be disappointed by what these things can do for us.
James Howard KunstlerFor instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores.
James Howard KunstlerThe 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.
James Howard KunstlerI am a sur le motif painter, always in-the-field, with a French easel that folds up into a box, with backpack straps on it. Many of the sites I haunt are desolately beautiful. Few other people go there. I am gloriously alone, unmolested, and absorbed in attempting to see what I am looking at.
James Howard Kunstler