James Howard Kunstler Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Energy, Entering, Facts

  Source: www.raisethehammer.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

• 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

• Under the current high energy / high entropy regime, sustainable development is a joke.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Energy, Development, Regimes

  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

• 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

• I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Thinking, Kyoto, Energy

  Source: www.treehugger.com

• Anyone who studies the energy predicament understands its connection with the operations of capital - and by this I do not mean capitalism as an ideology, I mean the behavior of acquired wealth and its deployment for productive purpose. (A lot of educated idiots don't understand this, and we waste a lot of time blathering about capitalism.)

  James Howard Kunstler

  Mean, Deployment, Energy

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

• I believe we are deluded about alternative energy. The key is, whatever we do, we're going to have to do on a very modest scale. It's all about scale. We're not going to build giant wind farms with Godzilla-sized turbines all over the place. That's a fantasy.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Believe, Wind, Keys

  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.

• Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Class, Gains, Energy

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

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