{"id":22548,"date":"2017-01-23T20:49:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T01:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22548"},"modified":"2017-01-23T20:49:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T01:49:42","slug":"james-howard-kunstler-the-worlds-greatest-misallocation-of-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22548","title":{"rendered":"James Howard Kunstler: The World’s Greatest Misallocation Of Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"
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James Howard Kunstler: The World’s Greatest Misallocation Of Resources<\/a><\/h3>\n
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And why we appear poised to repeat it\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n
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James Howard Kunstler returns to the podcast this week, observing that despite the baton being handed to a new American president, the massive predicaments we face as a society remain the same. And it seems the incoming administration is just as in denial of them as the old.<\/div>\n
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Kunstler\u00a0adds fresh critique to his now decades-old warning that we are sleepwalking our way deep into the Long Emergency. The longer we delude ourselves and waste our energies in pursuit of reviving the failed “endless growth” model, the farther our journey back to a sustainable way of living will be when our current system collapses:<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think there is any sense that they really know where we\u2019re headed, what our destination is, and what the imperatives are and what the future is actually telling us that we need to do<\/strong>. Don\u2019t forget that\u00a0the so-called psychology of previous investment is a very powerful force in American life\u00a0<\/strong>and it\u2019s prompting us to do everything we can to maintain the investments we\u2019ve already made. Those investments are the ones I have already mentioned: the freeways, the suburban housing developments, the strip malls.<\/p>\n

A lot of the hope pinned on Trump is based on the idea that he\u2019s assembling this team of mega-competent capitalist movers and shakers who know how to make deals — the Wilbur Rosses and Rex Tillersons of the world — and that they are going to conjure up a tremendous surge of economic activity that will be majorly fruitful going forward in the future and produce a tremendous amount of new wealth. Of course\u00a0the stock market has been pricing that in<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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