James Howard Kunstler responds to a listener question about the future of water transportation in North America. There is a fabulous inland waterway system in North America that is going to become very important again. But if we want to remain serious about trade in this country, we are going to have to rebuild the infrastructure for water and rail transportation. All of those waterfronts where we’ve been building theme parks, condominium clusters and picnic grounds in recent times will have to make room for the warehouses, piers and sleazy accommodations for the sailors that are required by water transit.
KunstlerCast: Water Transit
By Duncan Crary, originally published by KunstlerCast
February 12, 2009
Related Articles
Thinking about free will and responsibility
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
If all rewards are dependent on many actions and actors — as all things are — then nobody earns any larger slice of the reward than anyone else. And the more-than-human world receives most of any revenue — because the more-than-human world provides all the raw materials and most of the labor involved in doing everything to support every body.
April 30, 2024
Democracy Rising 32: Sortition for a Steady-State Economy?
By Gary Gardner, CASSE
How about it: Shall we leave the establishment of a steady state economy to the pro-growth “representative” democracies? Or should we sort it out ourselves?
April 30, 2024
In Coastal British Columbia, the Haida Get Their Land Back
By Serena Renner, Hakai Magazine
The provincial wall may not have fully crumbled, but the tide is rising against it. And at least on Haida Gwaii, a colonial government is no longer lord of the land.
April 30, 2024