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James Howard Kunstler Quotes

It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

"Lying or Just Stupid?" by James Kunstler, www.businessinsider.com. August 4, 2014.

The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things

James Howard Kunstler (1994). “Geography Of Nowhere: The Rise And Declineof America'S Man-Made Landscape”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

"The Greatest Misallocation of Resources in the History of the World". "Placemakers" with Rebecca Sheir, www.slate.com. November 7, 2016.

Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

James Howard Kunstler (2007). “The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Cent”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.