James Howard Kunstler Quotes About Farming

Quotes about: Farming

• We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more human attention.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Mean, Attention, Growing

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

• The fortunate and successful New Urbanists will be the ones who can find local infill projects in small towns and small cities associated with farming, water transport, (perhaps rail too) and water power. I do not believe personally that we will retrofit much of suburbia in the way many people wish we might. The capital won't be there, and I'm rather convinced that the population is headed down - though this will be a lagging effect, because even starving people have sex.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Sex, Believe, Successful

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

• Peak oil is already upon us. It is destroying our banking system, that is, our system for marshalling capital, and that is about to put us out of business-as-usual. So, we have to carry on with business-not-so-usual. This could mean anything from your children finding careers in farming (rather than show biz or plastic surgery) to reorganizing households differently to traveling from New York to Boston by boat.

  James Howard Kunstler

  New York, Children, Mean

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

• In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Successful, Cities, Towns

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

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