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Motion is a great tranquilizer.

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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New York City
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The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.
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I have a new theory of history, which is certain things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time. And suburbia seemed like a good idea at the time, but it was a special time and place in history, with special dynamics. And now, we're going to have to live with the consequences of that. And the consequences will be tragic.
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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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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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It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.
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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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The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated into the vertical slums of the late 20th century.
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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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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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I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.
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