Stories by James Howard Kunstler
We continue to be childishly delusional about our dark economic and environmental prospects. Unfortunately, reality isn't amenable to lies and spin.
Posted on Nov 16, 2009, Source: Kunstler.com
Restoring the American railroad system is an excellent place to start recovering our sense of national purpose and faith in collective enterprise.
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, Source: Chelsea Green Publishing
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, 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.
Posted on Feb 10, 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.
Posted on Jan 21, 2009, 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?
Posted on Dec 2, 2008, Source: Kunstler.com
Why squander our remaining resources on a lifestyle that doesn't have a future?
Posted on Nov 25, 2008, Source: Kunstler.com
Are we headed for a deflationary period followed by a tidal wave of inflation?
Posted on Oct 25, 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.
Posted on Aug 19, 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.
Posted on May 22, 2008, Source: Kunstler.com
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, Source: Chelsea Green Publishing
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: Kunstler.com
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, Source: Orion Magazine
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, Source: Salgamundi
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, Source: Kunstler.com
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, Source: TomPaine.com
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, 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."
Posted on Dec 10, 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.
Posted on Nov 24, 2005, Source: Kunstler.com
Will New Orleans and the devastated region around it be rebuilt on the hollow premise of Cheap Oil?
Posted on Sep 8, 2005, Source: AlterNet
