<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for An interview with author James Howard Kunstler]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by JoAnneK17 http://www.grist.org/article/kunstler2/ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:18:10 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/kunstler2/1 Post-amazon.com world?

Great interview, book looks very interesting...and grist sends people to amazon?  Please let's find a way to get people into their downtowns and shopping at independents - bookstores and other retailers alike.  

JoAnne Kohler
Tea Party Bookshop - coming soon to downtown Salem, OR!!

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Great interview, book looks very interesting...and grist sends people to amazon?  Please let's find a way to get people into their downtowns and shopping at independents - bookstores and other retailers alike.  

JoAnne Kohler
Tea Party Bookshop - coming soon to downtown Salem, OR!!

]]> Comment #2 by worldischanging http://www.grist.org/article/kunstler2/ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:27:30 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/kunstler2/2 Damn, He's Smart

We are on the brink of a second Great Depression.  It is being brought about by the inability of the global oil (and other fossil fuel) operations to supply the increasing global demand, and how this messes up all the complex systems of our day to day lives world wide, especially here in the United States of Suburbia.  

Take a moment and think about how your daily needs are being met - water supply, waste systems, food supply, etc., etc. - and notice how much each gets scrambled by an increase in the price of liquid fuels.

Sadly, even while knowing this information about the plight of the economy, there isn't a whole lot one can do, though there are a few things and first on that list is starting to really understand what the hecks going on.

Check out Kunstler's blog published every Monday at Kunstler.com for some of the best journalism coverage available.  More things will start to make sense.

By the way, I appreciate the tone of this interview, which is generally respectful, well researched and genuinely interested.  I can't say the same about this 2005 Grist interview of Mr. Kunstler:

 http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/05/25/little-kuns ...

]]> Damn, He's Smart

We are on the brink of a second Great Depression.  It is being brought about by the inability of the global oil (and other fossil fuel) operations to supply the increasing global demand, and how this messes up all the complex systems of our day to day lives world wide, especially here in the United States of Suburbia.  

Take a moment and think about how your daily needs are being met - water supply, waste systems, food supply, etc., etc. - and notice how much each gets scrambled by an increase in the price of liquid fuels.

Sadly, even while knowing this information about the plight of the economy, there isn't a whole lot one can do, though there are a few things and first on that list is starting to really understand what the hecks going on.

Check out Kunstler's blog published every Monday at Kunstler.com for some of the best journalism coverage available.  More things will start to make sense.

By the way, I appreciate the tone of this interview, which is generally respectful, well researched and genuinely interested.  I can't say the same about this 2005 Grist interview of Mr. Kunstler:

 http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/05/25/little-kuns ...

]]> Comment #3 by Lhogue http://www.grist.org/article/kunstler2/ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:46:16 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/kunstler2/3 Magical Realism?

Overall, I enjoyed "World Made by Hand." It does indeed put in concrete terms the kinds of things Kunstler has been predicting. I suppose if you weren't already inclined to believe the whole Peak Oil scenario, it all might seem a bit preposterous -- reading "The Long Emergency" first might help with that. (I haven't read it yet, but have noticed that a lot of Kunstler's predictions for 2007 and the first half of 2008 -- available on his website -- are right on, and that he predicted the mortgage crisis back in 2005.)

I was a bit bothered by the supernatural or maybe magical realist element thrown in with Brother Jobe and his mother at the end. Maybe an attempt to goose the plot a bit when it seemed to be running down?

]]> Magical Realism?

Overall, I enjoyed "World Made by Hand." It does indeed put in concrete terms the kinds of things Kunstler has been predicting. I suppose if you weren't already inclined to believe the whole Peak Oil scenario, it all might seem a bit preposterous -- reading "The Long Emergency" first might help with that. (I haven't read it yet, but have noticed that a lot of Kunstler's predictions for 2007 and the first half of 2008 -- available on his website -- are right on, and that he predicted the mortgage crisis back in 2005.)

I was a bit bothered by the supernatural or maybe magical realist element thrown in with Brother Jobe and his mother at the end. Maybe an attempt to goose the plot a bit when it seemed to be running down?

]]> Comment #4 by swan http://www.grist.org/article/kunstler2/ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:53:09 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/kunstler2/4 Independent book sellers

Or if you don't have a local book seller you can order online from 100fires.com or Powell's - the best of independent book sellers online!

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Or if you don't have a local book seller you can order online from 100fires.com or Powell's - the best of independent book sellers online!

]]> Comment #5 by Delay And Deny http://www.grist.org/article/kunstler2/ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:31:55 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/kunstler2/5 Gloomtarians At The Gate


Why in the world would I ever want to read anything from this gloomy witch?

Authors are supposed to be like Walt Whitman and Jack Kerouac.   They're suppose to go around celebrating America in all it's fantastic extravagance, not taking a moped to Gristedes to by Euro-style non-toxic soap.

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Why in the world would I ever want to read anything from this gloomy witch?

Authors are supposed to be like Walt Whitman and Jack Kerouac.   They're suppose to go around celebrating America in all it's fantastic extravagance, not taking a moped to Gristedes to by Euro-style non-toxic soap.

]]> Comment #6 by Storm Dragon http://www.grist.org/article/kunstler2/ Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:35:23 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/kunstler2/6 Well, I suppose....

...that we should beware of of too much stereotyping and pidgeonholing of authors.

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...that we should beware of of too much stereotyping and pidgeonholing of authors.

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