Quotes about Suburban Sprawl from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "The plight of the inner ring has been exacerbated not only by the suburban sprawl, but also by an urban revival. As downtown living has become hip again and its benefits recognizable not just to young professionals, but also to empty nesters, gentrification and new development have driven up housing costs in many American central cities. The result is that areas of concentrated poverty are getting squeezed out into the inner ring, where housing is cheaper."- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "In the metropolises of the Global North, we face legacies of neglect and pollution, traffic jams, housing shortages, aging infrastructures, and suburban sprawl. Meanwhile, in the booming megacities of the Global South, the problems can seem massive and unsolv-able: exploding populations, crippled local governments, poverty, need, and collapsing systems. And with millions and millions of people moving every year from the countryside to the city, all of these difficulties seem even more insurmountable. Appearances, however, can be deceiving." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
 "These social and economic factors, such as suburban sprawl and more widespread use of energy-saving devices, are a mounting presence even in developing countries. Encouraging the population by exhortation is likely to help to some extent but must be combined with innovation in changing the environment. It must be easy for people to act in a healthy manner, so times, places, and incentives for people to be physically active must be engineered into daily life.
TELEVISION, MOVIES, CELEBRITIES, AND THE SEDUCTION OF CHILDREN
The commercial exploitation of children . . . is particularly egregious."- Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.) |
 "The Bay area will surely be troubled by the extent of its suburban sprawl, and the Central Valley as far north as Redding may be overwhelmed by refugees from Mexico and the additional problems they will create. Oregon and Washington are large states, but much of their terrain is high desert and will not support sizable settlements. Both states may be overwhelmed additionally by sheer numbers of Californians fleeing the disorders there.
The Northwest may find itself in a whole other strange kind of trouble."- James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "Any transition, therefore, from an economy based on suburban sprawl to an economy based on small-scale farming and small-scale commerce serving it will probably be very difficult and disorderly in the southeastern United States. It also seems to me that whatever government, if any, does finally resolve out of the anarchy faced by this region, it may end up being despotic and theocratic. The South to this day evinces levels of extreme religiosity far above other parts of the United States and is, in fact, the home base and spawning ground of many sects of Christian fundamentalism." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "I doubt that the public questions its basic premises or mode of operation any more than the public questions the economy of suburban sprawl. But high school in our time amounts to little more than day care for virtual adults in which some learning might incidentally take place, much of it of dubious value. There are any number of rationales that might explain it—for instance, that all young people must be prepared for college, because the knowledge economy demands a highly educated workforce." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "This meant that, if nothing else, the nation could continue the suburban sprawl fiesta that had become the virtual replacement for the old manufacturing economy. It was, in short, another self-reinforcing feedback loop, a self-organizing system shaping the American landscape into a nightmarish diagram of motoring hyper-squalor." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) |
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