James Howard Kunstler Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.”

“History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!”

“Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information.”

“My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there's no question we're going to have to rely on them. For me, it's an issue of scale.”

“The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents.”

“There's a lot of wishful thinking that somehow we'll replace fossil fuels with alternative energy sources, but they remain far from reality. We're not going to run Wal-Mart, Disney World, and the interstate highway system on any combination of alternative or renewable energy - solar, wind, algae oils, ethanol, used french-fry grease, you name it.”

“White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota of white America loses its own footing in the middle class and plunges into the rough country of joblessness, hopelessness, and government dependency.”

“I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a 'time out' from technological progress as we know it.”

“American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.”

“I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.”