Kunstler

Jim Kunstler is a national treasure. Can't recommend his blog enough: https://kunstler.com/writings/clusterfuck-nation/ .

Oh man, I've missed him... his latest rant https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-raptures-of-hyper-complexi… reminds me exactly why I loved him... he expresses the worries I have, and suddenly I feel less alone in my worries.

Jim Kunstler's podcast is good when he doesn't veer off into peak oil civilizational collapse speculation http://kunstler.com/writings/podcast/ Granola Shotgun https://granolashotgun.com/ http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/ I really enjoyed the books 'The Great Good Place' by Oldenberg , 'Streets are for People' by Rudufsky and the Geography of Nowhere by Kunstler

Obligatory follow-up: http://kunstler.com/writings/eyesore-of-the-month/ If you are a bit familiar with architecture, laughs guaranteed.

Not tech related, but about new urbanism, economics and the environment: http://kunstler.com Check out Howard Kunstler's podcast as well: http://kunstlercast.com

I would refer the high-speed-rail types to James Kunstler's brilliant post 'financial crisis called off' where he reminds us... We blather about high speed rail, but you can't even get from Cleveland to Cincinnati on a regular train - and what's more amazing, nobody is really interested in making this happen. All we really care about is finding some miracle method to keep all the cars running. http://kunstler.com/blog/2009/08/financial-crisis-called-off.html

Reasonably astute summary of the situation. This is the gospel Jim Kunstler and others have been preaching for years now (http://www.kunstler.com/). If you accept the idea of peak oil, you can readily see where the intersection of PO and the re-urbanization trend will spell disaster for the suburbs.

Maybe because it's fun to cheer on a TV war from a barstool (USA! USA!). The early parts of a war, especially when fighting an incompetent enemy, make for great entertainment. Western countries aren't ruthless enough to really win wars in the Third World. They should think less like Rome and more like Byzantium. But those opening scenes look amazing. I can't answer your question though, so I'll leave it at that. Maybe it's the wrong question. Probably best to ask simply for 'people' who supported regime change as opposed to a straightforward trackdown and punishment of guilty parties. For instance, at this point I'd probably place George Bush at the progressive end of the political spectrum, or at least as an ally. A lot of people have changed their seating position in the last five years. As usual, James Howard Kunstler has an opinion regarding Afghanistan, a person could argue that the shadow of the CCCP looms over the US. History doesn't repeat, it rhymes: https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/strange-days-ahead/

"Reminds me a lot of Pyongyang" Or Brasilia. Three cities built on the communist central planning principles of the post-war American suburb reflect, each in its own way, the oppression and alienation that motorcar-oriented planning imposes on humans. [0] There is an alternative to suburban hell. The traditional city humans have loved for thousands of years is still possible. [1] There are even great accessible, affordable examples in Burma and Brazil. In places like North Korea and the USA, the destruction of traditional free ways of life has been more complete. Though if you belong to the powerful and monied elite you might be able to afford to live in the few remaining neighborhoods in Pyongyang or San Francisco where traditional city design from decades ago is grandfathered in. [0] http://kunstler.com/books/the-geography-of-nowhere/ [1] http://www.newworldeconomics.com/archives/2008/072008.html

Scary predictions indeed! "I believe the aggregate economic effect of these failures will be a worldwide deflationary depression. I will not be surprised if it is as bad in terms of unemployment and hardship as the 1930s. I expect that it will be attended by international political and military mischief." "Such an oil shortfall would put at hazard such "normal" American activities as national chain retail and industrialized agriculture. I doubt that the WalMarts and K-Marts of the land will survive..." "we are going to need local agriculture again, practiced on a smaller and more organic scale. We are going to regret turning some of our best farmland proximate to towns and cities into shopping malls and suburban housing tracts." "We are going to have to live more locally, and more self-dependently. All our activities will have to be conducted on a finer scale...We are going to have to re-invent smaller-scaled farms (with value-adding activities), and we’re going to have to localize, or at least regionalize, commerce. We may have to start making some things again ourselves, or do without them for a while." Those quotes aren't from this article though. They're from the same guy's article from nine years ago about what's going to happen in the aftermath of the Y2K bug. (http://kunstler.com/mags_y2k.html) He's still making the same predictions, and still has the creepy preoccupation with Wal-Mart.

Can't wait for this to be featured on "eyesore of the month"[1]. [1] https://kunstler.com/featured-eyesore-of-the-month/

Here is a podcast she did in 2016 with James Howard Kunstler. http://kunstler.com/podcast/chatting-kate-wagner-mcmansion-hell-dot-co…

"The Long Emergency", James Kunstler Peal Oil blog: http://kunstler.com/writings/clusterfuck-nation/

You would really like Geography of Nowhere by James Kunstler, if you haven't read it already. http://kunstler.com/books/the-geography-of-nowhere/ Many small cities (including Jersey City, my home) will not allow commercial businesses to be built without residential above it, at least in downtown commercial districts.

I've been listening to EconTalk with Russ Roberts[1], The KunstlerCast [2] and Poetry Magazine podcast [3] for years. Good stuff. It'll put hair on yer chest. [1] http://www.econtalk.org/ [2] http://kunstler.com/writings/podcast/ [3] http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/

Wow, it feels like I stumbled on James Kunstler's site today: http://www.kunstler.com/index.php The way I see it, we really only have two choices: nuclear (fusion) power; or "A World Made by Hand". Solar doesn't provide much energy density. (unless you can build a Dyson sphere or a "Ringworld" and convert huge amounts of solar radiation for transport) Methane has more energy per KG than oil, but much less per cubic meter. (in addition to low density, you need a strong/heavy tank to put it in). And it's a fairly finite fossil fuel. Uranium and the like are also a somewhat finite fossil fuels (even if from extinct supernovas, rather than ferns and dinosaurs). Hydrogen (fusion) on the other hand, pretty much defines the useful lifetime of the universe. That's how I define "sustainability".

From the article: The population of the United States is almost entirely car-dependent, and relies on markets that control oil import, refining, and distribution. They also rely on continuous public investment in road construction and repair. The cars themselves require a steady stream of imported parts, and are not designed to last very long. When these intricately interconnected systems stop functioning, much of the population will find itself stranded. I've seen this sentiment before, referenced indirectly from this forum: Potholes may well be the singular measure of the calamity we are in or about to face. -- http://www.kunstler.com/Grunt_SouthAfrica.html