James Howard Kunstler: Colbert Appearance and a Response to Critics

First off, here is JHK on Colbert (Flash required, methinks). It’s smart, it’s funny, and it’s worth your time (6 min).

And, Jim has sent us a reply to the critics of World Made By Hand…it is posted here in its entirety.

I don’t intend to mount a “defense” against all your complaints, but would like to make a few brief points:

The facts support the position that the Y2K computer situation was a serious problem. Billions of dollars and untold man-hours were spent correcting it. It was, however, a very limited problem, and it is fatuous to assert that just because it was successfully corrected means that we shouldn’t have taken it seriously.

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