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The economy of the 21st century will come to center on agriculture. Life will be intensely and profoundly local in ways that we can't conceive of today. Economic growth, as we have known it in a cheap energy industrial paradigm, will cease.

James Howard Kunstler

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James Howard Kunstler
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: October 19
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