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Development in Benicia: a "peak" at the BIG picture
By Marilyn Bardet
BENICIA, CA / November 16, 2007, 7:45 AM Here (below) is James Howard Kunstler, reporting from Houston, on the proceedings and lectures given at the annual Association for the Study of Peak Oil conference. Kunstler is particularly brilliant and savage in his depiction of downtown Houston. If you haven't yet read his book "The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century," it's high time to read it. As Richard Heinberg says now, we're over the cliff and like the roadrunner still caught in his head of steam -- we'll look down and suddenly realize we're in a state of free-fall.
Peak Universe
By : James Howard Kunstler
www.kunstler.com/
[This article appeared on 24hGold.com]
The big Peak Oil conference of the year took place in Houston last week – but before we get to the substance of that, a few words about where we were. It is hard to imagine a more horrifying urban construct than this anti-city in the malarial swamps just off the Gulf of Mexico. And it is hard to conceive of a more desolate and depressing urban district, even of such an anti-city, than the utter wasteland around Houston’s convention center. (...continued...)
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