Imperfect Future

Monday Magazine – It’s odd, but strangely plausible, that a man who isn’t an architect, doesn’t have any training in urban planning, and has no real background in geology would become the unofficial spokesperson for a new movement towards global sustainability. Perhaps it’s unlikely, or perhaps it’s a sign that people in North America are increasingly looking to someone for leadership, ideas, solutions-and in the absence of political leaders who acknowledge the importance of sustainable development, economics and communities, someone had to fill that place.

Enter James Kunstler, a journalist and author whose role has become that of a pubic intellectual, his message centred on the growing concern of peak oil, and what that will mean for our lives as we know them. Call him a Renaissance man for a new renaissance-one that rethinks the way we’ve done things thus far in North America, and looks for solutions to make life on this planet a little bit more sustainable.
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