3 Responses to “KrisCan Speaks with James Howard Kunstler (part 4)”
Jerry Lee Miller on
June 16th, 2008 4:16 pm
KrisCan thank you for your efforts! Great job getting to Kunstler!
Some good challenges ahead of us and when will we start laying down some tracks and fixing our choo choos? (cha cha cha!)
I’m growing food, composting and mostly just ruminating…trying to become a local while still commuting 109 miles…I will get rid of my car when I can find a job locally.
Do we write to editors etc now about railroads or what?
I didn’t quite get any practical suggestions.
I love your theme music!
JLM
rob mclaughlin on
June 17th, 2008 6:32 am
Nice job Kris on getting JHK to do the interview, let alone all the editing and work on the website. It’s a unique approach you’re taking and I hope (pray more like it) that it reaches an audience who wouldn’t look to the Richard Heinbergs and David Goodsteins in Peak Oil.
As for JLMs comments above, I think that PO proponents and those in the alternative media that can actually report on PO (with the emphasis on can) are well below the radar of the average North American, as shown by Kris’s on-the-street interviews in New York. How many hits has this site had? How many views did the latest ASPO conference have on Google? If you are trying to get practical suggestions or practical solutions, PO has to go mainstream and into the consciousness of the average joe. I’m afraid that won’t happen UNTIL even Fox News and USA today finally give it some attention and, by that time, I suspect it will be too late. Hip, informed, left-of-centre young people not swayed into denial of resource constraints ( by our human trait of cognitive dissonance) really ARE few and far between and we have to admit that. Even in my field of linguistics, fellow academics pay little, if any heed, to my remarks about the topic.
Frankly, if PO is to make it on to the front page of the New York Times, it is going to have to be through public protest. I would challenge Kris, and JHK themselves, to organize a protest–something not seen in long time–at the front steps of the NYT or perhaps on the lawn of the Washington Monument. Chomsky and Abbie Hoffman did this during the Vietnam era, and its going to take this again to smack a 2×4 into the American psyche. Otherwise, PO will be relagated to academic circles and the backwaters of the Internet.
Its up to you and your friends Kris…take the next step. You have NOTHING to lose.
Regards
Carl on
June 29th, 2008 6:02 am
Love the dog power, water power and horse power used in your bumper cuts. Keep up the quality work. Still think we need an onsight tour of the cheese doodle factory.
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KrisCan thank you for your efforts! Great job getting to Kunstler!
Some good challenges ahead of us and when will we start laying down some tracks and fixing our choo choos? (cha cha cha!)
I’m growing food, composting and mostly just ruminating…trying to become a local while still commuting 109 miles…I will get rid of my car when I can find a job locally.
Do we write to editors etc now about railroads or what?
I didn’t quite get any practical suggestions.
I love your theme music!
JLM
Nice job Kris on getting JHK to do the interview, let alone all the editing and work on the website. It’s a unique approach you’re taking and I hope (pray more like it) that it reaches an audience who wouldn’t look to the Richard Heinbergs and David Goodsteins in Peak Oil.
As for JLMs comments above, I think that PO proponents and those in the alternative media that can actually report on PO (with the emphasis on can) are well below the radar of the average North American, as shown by Kris’s on-the-street interviews in New York. How many hits has this site had? How many views did the latest ASPO conference have on Google? If you are trying to get practical suggestions or practical solutions, PO has to go mainstream and into the consciousness of the average joe. I’m afraid that won’t happen UNTIL even Fox News and USA today finally give it some attention and, by that time, I suspect it will be too late. Hip, informed, left-of-centre young people not swayed into denial of resource constraints ( by our human trait of cognitive dissonance) really ARE few and far between and we have to admit that. Even in my field of linguistics, fellow academics pay little, if any heed, to my remarks about the topic.
Frankly, if PO is to make it on to the front page of the New York Times, it is going to have to be through public protest. I would challenge Kris, and JHK themselves, to organize a protest–something not seen in long time–at the front steps of the NYT or perhaps on the lawn of the Washington Monument. Chomsky and Abbie Hoffman did this during the Vietnam era, and its going to take this again to smack a 2×4 into the American psyche. Otherwise, PO will be relagated to academic circles and the backwaters of the Internet.
Its up to you and your friends Kris…take the next step. You have NOTHING to lose.
Regards
Love the dog power, water power and horse power used in your bumper cuts. Keep up the quality work. Still think we need an onsight tour of the cheese doodle factory.