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Quotes from Too Much Magic — James Howard Kunstler

born 1948 United States

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Space travel will probably prove to have been another product of the cheap oil age, retrograde as that sounds. The truth works backward and forward, and sometimes it hurts.

Too Much Magic (2012)

The more comfortable we have become with the blandishments of industrial technology, the more complexity we are burdened with —as the BP oil blowout and the Fukushima nuclear meltdown remind us—and the more likely we are to meet the very fate we are desperately trying to avoid: our rendezvous with entropy [a euphemism for death].

Too Much Magic (2012)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Howard Kunstler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.