{"id":63045,"date":"2022-07-13T08:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T13:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63045"},"modified":"2022-07-13T08:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T13:02:20","slug":"james-howard-kunstler-its-all-going-to-have-to-get-smaller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63045","title":{"rendered":"James Howard Kunstler: It’s All Going to Have to Get Smaller"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Howard Kunstler: It’s All Going to Have to Get Smaller<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m not a techno-narcissist. I don\u2019t think there are technological rescue remedies that will allow us to keep doing what we\u2019re doing…\u201d<\/blockquote>

\u2014 James Howard Kunstler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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There is a prevailing fallacy, despite warning signs to the contrary (looming peak oil, fragile markets, and climate weirdness, among others), that we can continue in perpetuity the lifestyle to which we\u2019ve become accustomed. All we need to do is to pump into The System more debt or more political insanity, or hope that alternative energies or some new techno-solution will bail us out.<\/p>\n

But, at best, all debt-fueled growth, shale oil \u201cmiracles\u201d and green fuels can do by themselves is to make the Long Emergency just \u201ca little bit longer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Long Emergency\u201d is a phrase coined by James Howard Kunstler <\/a>to describe the economic, political and social upheavals that will dominate the first decades of the 21st-century as the honeymoon of affordable energy comes to a close. It is also the name of Kunstler\u2019s seminal book on the topic. (The Long Emergency<\/em> is one of fifteen books on our \u201cEssential Reading List for the Strong Towns Thinker.\u201d<\/a>)<\/p>\n

James Howard Kunstler is our very special guest on today\u2019s episode of the Strong Towns podcast. He is the author of more than 20 books<\/a>, including The Geography of Nowhere, Too Much Magic<\/em>, and the World Made By Hand<\/em> novel series.<\/p>\n

In this episode, Strong Towns president Charles Marohn talks with Kunstler about what has changed\u2014or perhaps what hasn\u2019t<\/em> changed\u2014since The Long Emergency <\/em>was first published in 2005. Kunstler explains why the \u201cpsychology of previous investment\u201d (4:45) makes it so hard for most people to imagine living differently. Marohn and Kunstler also discuss (17:00) what\u2019s wrong with the Green Revolution narrative that we can keep doing everything we\u2019re doing now, if just \u201cdo it green\u201d:<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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James Howard Kunstler: It’s All Going to Have to Get Smaller \u201cI\u2019m not a techno-narcissist. I don\u2019t think there are technological rescue remedies that will allow us to keep doing what we\u2019re doing…\u201d\u2014 James Howard Kunstler There is a prevailing fallacy, despite warning signs to the contrary (looming peak oil, fragile markets, and climate weirdness, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[141,195,391,449,617,8271,14712],"class_list":["post-63045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-climate-change","tag-debt","tag-growth","tag-james-howard-kunstler","tag-peak-oil","tag-strong-towns","tag-the-long-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63046,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63045\/revisions\/63046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}