Long Emergency Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

Name: Long Emergency Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
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ISBN: 9780802142498

ISBN-10: 0802142494

ISBN-13: 9780802142498

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Authors: James Howard Kunstler, James Howard Kunstler

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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. The last two hundred years have seen the greatest explosion of progress and wealth in the history of mankind. But the oil age 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. As a result of artificially cheap fossil-fuel energy we have developed global models of industry, commerce, food production, and finance that will collapse.…

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List price: $17.00
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/2/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English




Sleepwalking into the Future



Modernity and the Fossil Fuels Dilemma



Geopolitics and the Global Oil Peak



Beyond Oil: Why Alternative Fuels Won't Rescue Us



Nature Bites Back: Climate Change, Epidemic Disease, Water Scarcity, Habitat Destruction, and the Dark Side of the Industrial Age



Running on Fumes: The Hallucinated Economy



Living in the Long Emergency


Epilogue