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I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.

James Howard Kunstler

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James Howard Kunstler
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 19
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America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.
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Detroit right now is virtually abandoned at its core to the degree that a lot of what had been slums thirty years ago are now wildflower meadows. The rebuilding of Detroit will occur a much smaller scale. It remains to be seen what will become of Detroit's vast suburbs.
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I was not a hard-liner against nuclear, because I viewed that as perhaps the only way we might keep the lights on another 25 years. But lately I am on board with Nicole Foss's argument that we will not have the capital or even the social cohesion to build anymore nuke plants.
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