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Loading... The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other…by James Howard Kunstler
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 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 | This book is essentially the presentation of a set of theories regarding the end of cheap oil and the problems such a scenario presents. Kunstler shows us how every aspect of the average American life would be changed drastically; he details how it could mean many things; mass starvation, an end to the suburbs and a necessary shift to a more agrarian way of life. Kunstler also explains in great detail why such problems are unavoidable as there is no new technology that has been sufficiently developed to replace our dependence on oil. This book is a difficult one for me to review. I'm not a climatologist, an economist or any kind of expert on the subject matter presented in this book. However, Kunstler does make some very compelling arguments regarding the end of oil and the effect it could have on the global economy and the lives of billions of people. I suppose the best way for me to sum up my feelings on this book is to say that if even a small fraction of what Kunstler presents here is true, we are all in big trouble. (  )bibliophool | Jun 3, 2008 | 0.047 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0871138883, Hardcover)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.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:04 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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