If we weren't such a stupid people in thrall to our "smart"
phones, we'd be rebuilding the US passenger railroad system for the day,
not far off, when the grand entitlement of Happy Motoring rather
suddenly vaporizes for a significant chunk of the population. The lack
of interest in that project is really something to behold. Politicians
who systematically "de-fund" the rail corridors, which is the case here
in the Northeast, do it because they are as clueless as their
constituents about what's really coming down. Rather, both the
politicians and the public place their bets on "self-driving cars"
powered by an as-yet-to-be announced sovereign replacement for liquid
hydrocarbon fuel. The net effect of that stupidity is that your children
and grandchildren will lead lives in which they rarely travel more than
ten miles from home.
--James Howard Kunsler
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We do not live for the future; we live only in the present and the past.
Taking care for the future has been and will continue to be political suicide.
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