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I believe most of suburbia is unreformable and will not be fixed.
James Howard Kunstler
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James Howard Kunstler
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 19
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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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