Stories by James Howard Kunstler
Dear Mr. President, your assignment is to handle our economic decline in such a way as to avoid wars, civil disorder or both.
Posted on Feb 26, 2009
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.
Posted on Feb 10, 2009
Say goodbye to the 'consumer society.' Familiar touchstones of contemporary American life have to go. No more fast money and no more credit.
Posted on Jan 21, 2009
The economy may go back up, but the decline in oil production can't be stopped. Does the president-elect know this?
Posted on Dec 2, 2008
Why squander our remaining resources on a lifestyle that doesn't have a future?
Posted on Nov 25, 2008
Are we headed for a deflationary period followed by a tidal wave of inflation?
Posted on Oct 25, 2008
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.
Posted on Aug 19, 2008
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.
Posted on May 22, 2008
A suburban nation of snowmobilers, dirt bikers and NASCAR races -- all of it was made possible by the one-time blessing of cheap oil.
Posted on Mar 11, 2008
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.
Posted on Apr 4, 2007
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.
Posted on Feb 10, 2007
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.
Posted on Jan 23, 2007
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.
Posted on Dec 14, 2006
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.
Posted on Oct 23, 2006
We simply cannot face the fact that time has run out -- that our lease is expiring -- for a society dependent on cars.
Posted on May 30, 2006
This could be the year that the hardships and difficulties I lump together as the 'long emergency' get some serious traction.
Posted on Jan 11, 2006
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."
Posted on Dec 10, 2005
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.
Posted on Nov 24, 2005
Will New Orleans and the devastated region around it be rebuilt on the hollow premise of Cheap Oil?
Posted on Sep 8, 2005
