Comments on: Mondays call for a harsh dose of potential reality

By: her able hands | The view from the road to nowhere

her able hands | The view from the road to nowhere — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:35:16 +0000

[…] to get dinner started. And this fact gives me a bit of a tummy ache. This makes me think about what Jim Kunstler said about redirecting our culture more toward things-we-do-with-other-people. How are we, the average […]

By: Angelina

Angelina — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:49:35 +0000

I might have to check this guy’s writing out, but only when properly fortified. That is all stuff I’ve been thinking about a lot. Trying to work out how to make change for myself. Maybe in preparation for what might be coming. But mostly trying to make changes that just make sense.

What a way to wake up.

By: schmutzie

schmutzie — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:15:20 +0000

Thank you for the link and the quote. Seriously good material.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:00:45 +0000

Amen. The shift is coming…let’s make it good. Small is beautiful and so much easier.

By: marcyincny

marcyincny — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:11:09 +0000

After reading Jimmy’s essay yesterday I kept thinking about that next and final paragraph about ’shock and awe’. My husband’s nephew was here for the weekend, up from Philly where he’s an engineer working on display screens, a 30-year old who grew up there in Hudson and went to Kent State, and I’d already been thinking about how unprepared Erik is for the changes that are likely to define his adult life when I read Kunstler’s comments. I can’t imagine what it will be like, should things change suddenly, for people who have never contemplated life without cheap oil. Or cheap everything else.

And I know and love so many of them, SUV liberals most without the SUVs, happily flying all over the globe but buying lots of ‘offsets’, driving their hybrids but not even thinking about actually reducing the NUMBER OF MILES they log every month or, god forbid, TAKING A BUS!

Sorry. They don’t read Jimmy Kunstler either so I don’t have much opportunity to rant a bit…