James Howard Kunstler Quotes About Economy

Quotes about: Economy

• Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Space, Community, Village

• There is not going to be a "hydrogen economy," and no combination of alternative energy systems or fuels will allow us to continue the suburban pattern. It's finished. We will, however, desperately need to grow more of our food closer to home, and so the preservation of agricultural hinterlands is of great importance. But don't expect the fiesta of suburban construction to continue more than a few more years.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Home, Years, Energy

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

• The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well in an energy-starved economy.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Energy, Stories, Building

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

• We have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local main street economies (networks of local economic interdependency).

  James Howard Kunstler

  Mean, Rebuilding, Walmart

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

• We could do some household and neighborhood or town wind energy. But even this will run up eventually against the problem of needing an underlying fossil fuel economy to fabricate the hardware. Same with photovoltaic (solar) energy. We're going to be disappointed by what these things can do for us.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Running, Wind, Fossils

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

• We are in for a fiesta of default, repossession, and distress selling of suburban property, much of which will lose its presumed usefulness and monetary value in an energy-scarce economy.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Energy, Fiesta, Economy

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

• 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

  Agriculture, Growth, Way

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

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