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Let’s talk about our energy future. We’ve already reached the age of peak oil and fossil fuels are too dangerous for the environment anyway. Gas from shale oil in Canada? Far more pricey to extract than the industry would have you believe. OK, renewable energies-wind and solar-that’s the wave of the energy future. Not a chance. Those technologies can’t possibly power a country that hungers for consumption the way America does.

That’s what James Howard Kunstler believes, and he really doesn’t care if you disagree.