SNAP (Post it here.)
I tried to read Kunstler’s A World Made By Hand and failed.
Bear in mind, I love alternative history, science fiction and speculative literature. I am a member of the original Back to The Land Movement of the 1970s. The book is a smug presentation of a feudal lord’s view of Medieval life. I’ve lived this life partially in a world with available technology and various escape exits from the inevitable failures and catastrophes one encounters. Without those, it is harsh, uncompromising and wearing for the vast majority, especially children, the disabled, the elderly and women.
There are many reasons to dismiss Kunstler. This book is a small, but telling one. I’d love to extract his monetary cushion and watch him attempt this life style. Sort of like the Truman Show.
More B.S.
The economic assumptions in the essay are not valid.
Just who is it that describes on the right? I am not familiar with any examples. They must surely be out there because the esteemed writer says they are but I don't see any. Where are the right wing riots?
Assuming this guy’s thesis were true, we could have built nuclear plants and transitioned away from fossil fuels except for purposes where they are essential. Of course the radical left blocked that route, because they want to destroy our society by whatever means necessary.