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The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.
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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