Is The Atlantic Magazine finally catching up with James Howard Kunstler?

[Speck Tater]

Atlantic Magazine Headline: "The Beginning of the End for Suburban America"

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/The-Beginning-End-Suburban-atlantic-1156625650.html?x=0

"For decades, Americans have consumed more energy, built bigger houses, and driven more miles with each passing year. Not anymore.

In the years following World War II, the United States experienced an unprecedented consumption boom. Anything you could measure was growing. A Rhode Island-sized chunk of land was bulldozed to make new suburbs every single year for decades. America rounded into its present-day shape.

....

Now, though, the relentless growth in those figures is coming to an end."

Complete article at link.

[Javaman]

1. maybe the echo chamber finally developed a leak...

While, I'm an active member of suburbia, I think the people living out in the exo-burbs at the edge of the earth are the ones really feeling the pain first. I will eventually shrink toward the center but that won't be for a few years yet.