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Jim Kunstler Interview in Business Week

by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 04.30.08
Design & Architecture

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Business Week has a good interview with Jim Kunstler for those who are not familiar with his work. A typical question:

Why is suburbia now threatened?
Cheap oil is what made suburbia possible. But we'll run into problems with spot shortages. As we get into trouble with these supplies, our economy will suffer. Major instabilities in the system will present themselves much sooner than we are led to believe. And by that I mean the way we produce food, the way we conduct commerce, and the way we move around.

When will all that happen?

The rise and fall of oil production is asymmetrical. In other words, it'll be a steeper, rockier tumble down than the steady increase going up. My own sense of things is that we will be in very serious trouble inside of five years. More in ::Business Week

Read more of Kunstler on TreeHugger:

Interview with James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler Spares No One in New "KunstlerCast"

Jim Kunstler on Oil Addiction
Questions from Treehuggers for Jim Kunstler
The Long Emergency: a Long Review

Comments (2)

Jim Kunstler speaks the truth.

Even planned urban sprawl never took into consideration the effect of skyrocketing oil prices. Bad design, environmental damage, poor social planning - yes that was on the agenda. However the idea that it would be too expensive for the private vehicle to commute to work was not considered.

I blogged about this very issue -
Blog post. I love Jim's speech at TED - thanks Lloyd for introducing him to me!

Cheers - Eric - PickupPal.com

I thought Business Week was reputable...by interviewing JHK they proved me wrong.

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