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The Delusional People Who Want to Frack This Country Up

Posted on Nov 15, 2010, Source: Kunstler.com

The lying starts at the very top in this country, exhibit A being the grand idea that we can run our cars on U.S. reserves of natural gas.

Scary People, Scary Times -- Where Is This Country Going?

Posted on Sep 15, 2010, Source: Kunstler.com

Te inability to decode the clear and present dangers to civilized life is a failure of leadership and authority without precedent in the American story.

America Is One Big Clunker and No Amount of Cash Will Buy Us a New One

Posted on Nov 16, 2009, Source: Kunstler.com

We continue to be childishly delusional about our dark economic and environmental prospects. Unfortunately, reality isn't amenable to lies and spin.

It's Time to Rebuild Our Passenger Railroad System

Posted on Nov 4, 2009, Source: Chelsea Green Publishing

Restoring the American railroad system is an excellent place to start recovering our sense of national purpose and faith in collective enterprise.

"Consumerism" Is Dead -- Can Obama Lead Us to a Downscaled Lifestyle?

Posted on Feb 26, 2009, Source: Kunstler.com

Dear Mr. President, your assignment is to handle our economic decline in such a way as to avoid wars, civil disorder or both.

We'll Never Be Happy Consumers Again -- No Stimulus Package Can Bring That Back

Posted on Feb 10, 2009, Source: Kunstler.com

The political theater of the moment in Washington is focused on the illusion that we can find new ways of keeping the old ways going.

Yard Sale Nation: The Change Required to Salvage U.S Society Runs Much Deeper Than Most Imagine

Posted on Jan 21, 2009, Source: Kunstler.com

Say goodbye to the 'consumer society.' Familiar touchstones of contemporary American life have to go. No more fast money and no more credit.

What Does Barack Know About Peak Oil?

Posted on Dec 2, 2008, Source: Kunstler.com

The economy may go back up, but the decline in oil production can't be stopped. Does the president-elect know this?

Zombie Economics: Don't Bail out the System that Gave Us SUVs and Strip Malls

Posted on Nov 25, 2008, Source: Kunstler.com

Why squander our remaining resources on a lifestyle that doesn't have a future?

The Long Road Ahead -- Are You Ready for the Worst the Economy Has to Offer?

Posted on Oct 25, 2008, Source: Kunstler.com

Are we headed for a deflationary period followed by a tidal wave of inflation?

Russia's Return Bites the Neocons' Grand Energy Scheme in the Ass

Posted on Aug 19, 2008, Source: Kunstler.com

You have to ask what were they smoking over at the Pentagon and the CIA when they thought they could control Russia's close neighbor.

Wall Street's Racket Has Gone Too Far, and We're Going to Pay the Heavy Price

Posted on May 22, 2008, Source: Kunstler.com

There's a great wish for American finance to return to business-as-usual happy days of high profits, but there's just too much debt to swallow.

Cheap Oil Is Over: Kiss the Gas-Guzzling NASCAR Era Good-Bye

Posted on Mar 11, 2008, Source: Chelsea Green Publishing

A suburban nation of snowmobilers, dirt bikers and NASCAR races -- all of it was made possible by the one-time blessing of cheap oil.

We Must Imagine a Future Without Cars

Posted on Apr 4, 2007, Source: AlterNet

Kunstler argues that the coming age of energy scarcity will change everything about how we live in this country -- most of all our dependency on automobiles.

Ten Ways to Prepare for a Post-Oil Society

Posted on Feb 10, 2007, Source: Kunstler.com

The best way to feel hopeful about our looming energy crisis is to get active now and prepare for living arrangements in a post-oil society.

Finding Hope in a Post-Oil Society

Posted on Jan 23, 2007, Source: Orion Magazine

America invested most of its late twentieth-century wealth in a living arrangement with no future: Suburbia represents the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. It's time for us to make other arrangements.

Suburbia: Running on Empty?

Posted on Dec 14, 2006, Source: Salgamundi

Robert Bruegmann argues in his new book that urban sprawl will continue because people like it, but reviewer James Howard Kunstler counters that the petro-dependent suburban era is just about finished.

Cities of the Future Won't Look Like Ours

Posted on Oct 23, 2006, Source: Kunstler.com

The era of cheap oil is over, and lost with it an energy-rich way of life that billions of city dwellers have come to take for granted.

Pricey Gas? That's Reality

Posted on May 30, 2006, Source: TomPaine.com

We simply cannot face the fact that time has run out -- that our lease is expiring -- for a society dependent on cars.

2006: The Year of Oil Collapse?

Posted on Jan 11, 2006, Source: Kunstler.com

This could be the year that the hardships and difficulties I lump together as the 'long emergency' get some serious traction.

Moving in Uncharted Territory

Posted on Dec 10, 2005, Source: Kunstler.com

When people of any political persuasion cry for America to pull out of Iraq they should be ready to understand that things won't be "back to normal."

Can You Spell Withdrawal without O-I-L?

Posted on Nov 24, 2005, Source: Kunstler.com

It would be nice if we could have a coherent public discussion about staying or going in Iraq, and you can't do that without talking about the oil of the Middle East.

The Long Emergency Ahead

Posted on Sep 8, 2005, Source: AlterNet

Will New Orleans and the devastated region around it be rebuilt on the hollow premise of Cheap Oil?
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