James Kunstler is calling LA Almost Completely Hopeless starting off by calling LA "a place that kind of beats you down psychologically...it's a kind of a punishing place." Kunstler thinks a balkanization is likely coming and predicts troubles with the petroleum, water, and electricity supplies.
And then he leaves us with one last backhanded compliment. He says when he's out in LA he likes to imagine "how wonderful it would have been to be out there" in the early twentieth century, when there weren't many cars and there wasn't much pollution, when there was a streetcar system and the movie industry was just starting up.
"It must have been really quite a paradise," he says.
Read Kunstler Visits LA, Declares Us "Absolutely Hopeless" [Curbed LA]
