James Howard Kunstler says today's young people are owed an apology from the last two generations for how badly they've wrecked the built environment, and in the process committed "the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world."
"The people who built this stuff came out of the world's most most irresponsible society. They were childlike in their utter disregard of the future. Your generation is now being asked to lay down your lives in the deserts of the Middle East to keep that racket going. Nothing will really avail to keep this way of life going. It's just a fact, not a threat."
[Editor's note: Language warning.]
Thanks to Michael Dudley
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