Wow… long read but very well worth it.
Kunstler is pretty much right on. He has made one bad call in all of this. He jumped on the peak oil bandwagon just before fracking was invented, that ignoble practice developed by some good ol boy texas wildcatters who were watching their patrimony dry up and needed to find a way to keep raping the earth for black gold to sell to earth raping motorists who wanted to visit grandma for Xmas.