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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: 75
Born: 1948
Born: October 19
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Painting allows me to use other portions of my brain pleasurably. Irony plays no part in what or how I paint. I paint the particular subject matter not to make polemical points but because I am interested in the human imprint on the landscape. I paint the landscape of my time and place with the stuff in it.
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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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Under the current high energy / high entropy regime, sustainable development is a joke.
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Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.
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