The great Wal-Mart debate
It's not just Peak Oil where Dan Ferris is stirring the pot. His thoughts in Thursday's DR about Wal-Mart prompted this pithy comment from Long Emergency author James Howard Kunstler:
There is nonsense and then there is f—ing nonsense.
The damage that WalMart and other chains have done to the social and economic infrastructure of American communities is out-of-this-world.
The "bargain" in "bargain shopping" is that Americans saved nine dollars on a hair dryer while they threw away nine trillion dollars worth of civic amenity. Dan Ferris's bean-counter view of the phenomenon is limited to an extreme.
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