Listeners Share their Favorite Moments Released: April 5, 2012 The KunstlerCast celebrates its 200th episode with listener suggested clips of favorite moments from the past four years. Duncan reads a special essay about meeting JHK at the shopping mall before retrieving some retired audio from the archive. Direct Download: KunstlerCast_200.mp3 (32 MB | 31:07 mins.) more »
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Archive | March, 2012
KunstlerCast #199: Communications Wasteland
Our Overcomplexity and Hyperdependence on Modern Technology Released: March 22, 2012 JHK and Duncan have a ramble ‘n rant episode on the robitification of our communications landscape, that wasteland of overcomplexity and hyperdependence of modern technology. Direct Download: KunstlerCast_199.mp3 (42 MB | 40:10 mins.) Listener Caller Line: 1-(866) 924-9499 toll-free ANNOUNCEMENT: The 200th episode of more »
Juked by Medicine
This still moment on the verge of spring equinox, industrial civilization is taking a rest from its travails of finance and economy. The creaking and groaning vehicle of world banking lurches forward with its latest patch, the Greek fix, but the explosive resignation last week of a Goldman Sachs executive director Greg Smith, posted more »
KunstlerCast #198: Catherine Tumber on Small Cities – Part 2
Urban Contraction, Urban Farming, Urban Schooling Released: March 15, 2012 James Howard Kunstler speaks by phone with Catherine Tumber, author of Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America’s Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World. Tumber believes that small industrial cities, particularly in the Northeast and Midwest, are well suited for the energy and more »
Intermezzo
Unless your mobile home was blown all over the county on opening day of the tornado season, this must seem like an interlude of reassuring normality in the world’s convulsive wendings. The IED known as Greece has not quite yet exploded, loud as all the graveyard whistling that emanates from Europe might more »
KunstlerCast #197: Catherine Tumber on Small Cities – Part 1
The Promise of America’s Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World Released: March 8, 2012 James Howard Kunstler speaks by phone with Catherine Tumber, author of Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America’s Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World. Tumber believes that small industrial cities, particularly in the Northeast and Midwest, are well more »
March 2012
Techno-grandiosity meets exercise in futility: an art installation, so-called, by Michael Heizer titled Levitated Mass.
Reality Check
America is starting to remind me of Bette Davis in the horror movie classic What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? America is losing its grip on reality. America is acting like an elderly strumpet in too much pancake makeup performing a song-and-dance on the beach while its kinfolk lie dying in the sand. more »
KunstlerCast #196: JHK’s Veganism
The American Diet of The Future Released: March 1, 2012 JHK talks about his experience being a “97 percent” vegan and how the American diet may change in the Long Emergency. ***Jim’s recipe for Lucky Soup will be posted here tomorrow (March 2)*** Direct Download: KunstlerCast_196.mp3 (26 MB | 25:24 mins.) Listener Caller Line: 1-(866) more »
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Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
The nationally best-selling author of "The Long Emergency" expands on his alarming argument that our oil-addicted, technology-dependent society is on the brink of collapse—that the long emergency has already begun. Published by the Atlantic Monthly Press.
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