James Howard Kunstler

So every effort is made to keep them within the building.

Notice that nature is present.

We're gonna have to change this behavior whether we like it or not.

We are entering an epochal period of change in the world and certainly in America.

The period that will be characterized by the end of the cheap oil era.

It is going to change absolutely everything.

There's not gonna be a hydrogen economy.

Forget it.

It's not gonna happen.

We're going to have to do something else instead.

We're going to have to downscale, rescale, and resize virtually everything we do in this country, and we can't start soon enough to do it.

We're going to have to live closer to where we work.

We're going to have to live closer to each other.

We're going to have to grow more food closer to where we live.

The age of the 3,000 mile Caesar salad is coming to an end.

We have a railroad system that the Bulgarians would be ashamed of.

We got to do better than that.

And we should have started two days before yesterday.

We are fortunate that the new urbanists were there for the last 10 years excavating all that information that was thrown in the garbage by our parents' generation.

after World War II, because we're going to need it if we're going to learn how to reconstruct towns.