Kunstlerfunk Nation 09

[kmo]

Jim Kunstler has posted his predictions for 2009. I haven't read beyond the first paragraph yet, but it starts like this:There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo) is that our problems of finance and economy will self-correct and allow the project of a "consumer" economy to resume in "growth" mode. This view includes the idea that technology will rescue us from our fossil fuel predicament -- through "innovation," through the discovery of new techno rescue remedy fuels, and via "drill, baby, drill" policy. This view assumes an orderly transition through the current "rough patch" into a vibrant re-energized era of "green" Happy Motoring and resumed Blue Light Special shopping.

You can read the rest on his blog: http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2008/12/forecast-for-2009.html