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The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Cent by James Howard Kunstler
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by James Howard Kunstler

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Kunstler is more current but no more informative than William Catton in [b:Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change|319810|Overshoot The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change|William R. Catton|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173735076s/319810.jpg|310571], and he certainly lacks the radical social awareness of Heinberg in [b:The Party's Over: Oil War and the Fate of Industrial Societies|138040|The Party's Over Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies|Richard Heinberg|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172092006s/138040.jpg|448156]. He's a cynic. But there's no comparison where sense of humor and writing skill are concerned. For that, he earns an extra star. ( )
  dylan1 | Aug 12, 2009 |
If you want to feel uncomfortable, this is a book for you. Kunstler doesn't greenwash the future, and cuts to the chase. It's interesting to read articles in the newspaper about peak oil, and then realize Kunstler has already clearly explained the ramifications of it. ( )
  chilee | Mar 25, 2009 |
Good book, still somewhat unconvincing, but certainly enough to creep me out about the possibilities of the near future. ( )
  flourishing | Mar 17, 2009 |
Good book, still somewhat unconvincing, but certainly enough to creep me out about the possibilities of the near future. ( )
  flourishing | Mar 17, 2009 |
Very sobering book that echoes some concerns that I've had for a long time.
  jaygheiser | Jul 23, 2008 |
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With his classics of social commentary The Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler has established himself as one of the great commentators on American space and place. Now, with The Long Emergency, he offers a shocking vision of a post-oil future. As a result of artificially cheap fossil-fuel energy, we have developed global models of industry, commerce, food production, and finance over the last 200 years. But the oil age, which peaked in 1970, is at an end. The depletion of nonrenewable fossil fuels is about to radically change life as we know it, and much sooner than we think. The Long Emergency tells us just what to expect after the honeymoon of affordable energy is over, preparing us for economic, political, and social changes of an unimaginable scale. Riveting and authoritative, The Long Emergency is a devastating indictment that brings new urgency and accessibility to the critical issues that will shape our future, and that we can no longer afford to ignore. It is bound to become a classic of social science.

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