Speaking of James Kunstler (0.00 / 0)

There is a nice little interview with James Kunstler in the Boston Phoenix out today, headlined "Dropping the Ball."  
The first two questions:

We've just said goodbye to a trying decade. How do you see the coming years?
I think we're in for a period of hardship. A transition out of the industrial economy - into what we do not know, but it will be characterized by the downscaling of all our important daily activities. And by that, I mean the way we grow our food, the way we do trade and commerce, the way we make things, the way we do transportation, the way we inhabit the landscape, the way we acquire and deploy capital for useful purposes.

Most Americans are going to have quite a difficult time accepting this new state of affairs.
Well, tough noogies! This is one of the central delusions of the current period - that all of this stuff is a matter of choice. There's a great deal of hoping and wishing that we can maintain our standard of living. Obviously, that comes from our recent experience of extreme affluence. But we're faced with what I call the mandates of reality. And those are going to compel some outcomes that are fairly obvious at this point.

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by: John Howard @ Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 18:36:12 PM CST