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Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

James Howard Kunstler

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James Howard Kunstler
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 19
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Environmentalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
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In my view, suburbia in general has very poor prospects. I think it will only become devalued and probably more dangerous. It's chief characteristic was that it represented a living arrangement with no future - and that future is now here.
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I think water transport will see a revival. However, we're not going to replay the 20th century. The industrial city of that era will not be revived. Our cities are going to contract. Many of them will contract as a whole but densify at their core.
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I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it.
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Motion is a great tranquilizer.
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People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to drive a car goes way down, as it will.
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I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are essentially self-organizing emergent systems. The catch is, how much disorder will we have to endure while this re-self-organizing process occurs.
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The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.
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Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.
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The cities of the future will be much smaller than they are today.
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The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.
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America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.
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Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence.
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On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the order of daily life, including the duties, responsibilities, obligations, and ceremonies that prompt citizens to care for each other.
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I think we'll see a leveling off and then a contraction of population, not a continued upward trend.
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We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house.
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The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.
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I believe most of suburbia is unreformable and will not be fixed.
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In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government policy is the way to get things done.
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Consider how badly-built suburbia is. Many business buildings are not designed to outlast their tax depreciation periods, and the McHouses are made of particle board, vinyl siding, and stapled-on trim. A lot of suburbia will simply become the slums of the future. Most of the rest will be salvage or ruins.
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It is worth remembering that our cities occupy important sites, and therefore some kind of settlement is liable to be there.
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