Peak Oil News - Trains may not be our biggest worry

U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., stopped by last week and said, among a lot of other things, that America needs bigger ideas. He lamented that for 25 years we've been mired in things too small. As a nation, "we need more creativity and imagination," he said, not quite pounding the conference table, but he seemed to mean it. "We need big ideas," he said with an exclamation point! ... Now, I like senators who ask us to think big. But often it is writers who are way ahead of our political class. Take James Howard Kunstler, for example, who had big ideas on the burbs. In the past 15 years he has had two insightful, scathing, best-selling attacks on suburbia in his "Geography of Nowhere" and "Home from Nowhere." He didn't set out to solve the two Connecticuts — the poor and failing urban education systems and the better schools in the suburbs. But his big idea now encompasses the end of two Connecticuts, two Americas in a way that is disturbing, but in his mind, coming.

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