Emergency Procedures (1/3)

[MrEnergyCzar]

He says it like it is and never veers....

[PeakOilCountdown]

Kunstler is awesome; I dunno why more people don't listen to the man, he's one of our best IMO.

[RomanV101]

@PeakOilCountdown

I'm american, and love his messages. I spread the word as much as I can.

[florgat91]

screw that - the suburbs rock !

[bananian]

supersize city.

[HALEYSABAI]

That's correct, if you follow his weekly blog you would of been aware of sub-prime long before the American public could even spell it. People laughed then just as they shrug-off the topic of peak oil now...... the public have always been "insufferable fools" and are they in for a rude awakening!

[drmodestoesq]

If you read "The Long Emergency" you will also note that he predicted the collapse of the American Sub-Prime real estate market with startling accuracy.

[ALP5050]

Not to mention she is a dumb cunt.

[ehswan]

Not to mention the millitary industrial complex.

[reallygonecat]

a prophet. just like george carlin.

[TonyKaku]

I agree completely with his forecasts on the economics of energy.

But if I am wrong, cheap, abundant energy will lead to unprecedented ecological collapse. More energy to muck up this worse than we already have? That's a chilling thought.

[yerk3]

TonyKaku: Most of the "mucking up" has to do with antiquated, inefficient modes of energy production, namely the waste products from fossil fuels. A new, ecologically sound source of cheap energy will drastically decrease the need to "muck up."

[TonyKaku]

Even with a non-polluting energy source, we would still have to change our consumptive lifestyles. We cannot continue to remove forests, degrade soils and consume resources on the scale we do now. Clean energy would be nice, but it is only part of the problem.

[GeoffreyRahl]

Oil isn't just about vehicules, it is also about powerplants, plastics, roads, clothes, cosmetics, soaps,fertilizers,medecines, everything that is even remoely related to oil will be affected!

Petroleum molecule DO have unique chemical assets that make them extraodinary.

So discovering a new energy source won't solve the problem!

[Teller3448]

Kunstler writes primarily about aesthetics and energy. His work on the former is brilliant, hysterically funny, profound and poetic, but I disagree completely with his forecasts on the economics of energy.

Energy is all around us, we just arent very good at capturing and storing it...not yet!

Remember, it actually costs 75% less to run a city car on electricity...in cents per mile.

[Vice81]

Umm electricity and hyrogen and all mass moder economies need a mass easily moveable base of energy to run dude. That is what fossil fues do. The only thing that could replace it is fusion power, good luck with that.

[tgold1968]

Most of the energy "all around" us translates to electricity when it is captured. Electricity is not the same as liquid fuels. The living arrangement that Jim K. criticizes depends upon on liquid fuels, not electricity. And that is why it is unsustainable and "has no future".

[bananian]

then we'll move farther away from cities b/c have the energy thus only prolonging the problem.

[izmatics]

The USSR collapsed because it failed to take human greed into account. Conversely, our undoing will be predicated on greed run rampant. This is exactly what Kunstler is taking about: our built environment is "not worth caring about" because it was "fabricated" with only one thing in mind - money.

[muaytaps]

I love this guy, but the ridiculous sepia visual echo on this clip is horrible! I would love to send this message to my skeptical friends, but the technical quality of this thing is embarassing.

[rastajah]

This is THE issue facing America.

[izmatics]

That's right, but why is everyone so blind to it?? It's maddening.

[rastajah]

I'd like to recommend the movie "Manufactured Landscapes" to you and everyone else interested in this clip. It's a masterpiece. Peace.

[iaeruo]

a lot are blind to it, but we are both watching it. thats something..

[Puzzoozoo]

No, this the issue facing the whole world.

[eepee66]

Thanks for posting, very important.

[rvbarnesboy]

Never underestimate the power of denial.

He's right. No one will say these things. It serves no political or economic agenda. The whole setup is quite unsustainable. relocalize.

consume less, learn how to garden. see also richard heinberg

[bearsagainstevil]

kunstler is so right america is based on the car which wont continue to run , where I live in britain I can easy live without cars .

if your american move to places like this before its too late if you can

[alanhowitzer]

If you were to show this video to most N. Americans, they would say our suburban lifestyle is great and doesn't need discussion. They do not see a reason to question their communities because that is all they know.

[alanhowitzer]

A dialog on this subject is long overdue. JH Kunstler is the most outspoken, unrelenting, upfront citic of the N. American suburban lifestyle. He's one of the few people who speak of how badly we've ruined our cities and doesn't sugarcoat his arguments a bit. Good job JHK. Keep making this an issue.

[Alacrates]

Thanks for posting these. I think Kunstler is a very important thinker for our times, there's very few like him.