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James Howard Kunstler is the author of four non-fiction works on cities and the challenges facing American society, including: The Geography of Nowhere; Home From Nowhere; The City in Mind; and his ground-breaking book on the peak oil crisis, The Long Emergency (Grove-Atlantic, 2005). His most recent work is the fictional World Made by Hand, a novel of America's post-oil future. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine and Op-Ed page, where he has written on environmental and economic issues.
Post Carbon Adviser James Kunstler gives the opening speech at the National Preservation Conference in October 2011.
Let's talk about our energy future. We've already reached the age of peak oil and fossil fuels are too dangerous for the environment anyway. Gas from shale oil in Canada? Far more pricey to extract than the industry would have you believe. OK, renewable energies-wind and solar-that's the wave of the energy future. Not a chance. Those technologies can't possibly power a country that hungers for consumption the way America does.
That's what James Howard Kunstler believes, and he really doesn't care if you disagree.
Those frightening sounds, sights, and odors on the wind this foreboding snowless winter — like emanations from some back ward of a global psychiatric hospital — are the signs of a nation going completely mad. The … >>
[Excerpt] I LOVE THOSE CITIES-of-the-future illustrations from the old pop-culture bin. In “yesterday’s tomorrow,” they always get things so wonderfully wrong. One of my favorites, from the August 1925 … >>
Post Carbon Adviser James Howard Kunstler is one of the narrators on a new set of videos released by Planetizen on urban planning. From the article: Tim Halbur, Managing editor of the urban planning website Planetizen … >>
Richard Heinberg explains why we've hit the end of economic growth as we've known it, and what life can be like after growth.
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