Monday, November 29, 2004
Anywhere USA goes down
This appeared here courtesy of "a young reader named Robert" and blog owner Jim Kunstler, perhaps the best living scenarist of post-Hubbert's Peak life, wrote:
These places, and their furnishings, represent the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. Their salient characteristic was their futurelessness, and that future is now here . . . Robert, your generation will see all this stuff lose even its provisional usefulness and all of its supposed investment value. You will have to find a different way to arrange your lives in the decades to come. You'll have to return to traditional human habitats of town and farm as the role of the car diminishes down to nothing, and as the US economy comes to center on food production. Corridors like the highway strip above will be your future salvage yards. A hundred years from now, little will be left of them but the tilt-up concrete walls and the paved parking lagoons sprouting weeds. Meanwhile, your cow barns and hog pens will be roofed with Auto Zone signs. Perhaps it will seem quaint, but most of you who survive will be too busy to cultivate an air of irony about it.Let me echo, "most of you who survive . . . "
Comments:
yes, good article. As oil goes up, all this crazy way of life will stop.
Here in europe, i'm afraid we have followed the us and we are not better off ! we just start to use clean energy, and we still have a lot to learn !
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Here in europe, i'm afraid we have followed the us and we are not better off ! we just start to use clean energy, and we still have a lot to learn !
