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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

by James Howard Kunstler
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

When Peak Oil Reshapes American Life

James Howard Kunstler envisions a turbulent post-peak-oil future. He examines sweeping economic, political, and social upheaval, from fading globalism and suburbia to increasingly local survival.

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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

by James Howard Kunstler
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ISBN: 9780871138880
Author: James Howard Kunstler
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Date of Publication: 2005-04-05
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Science, History, Economics, Nature, Politics
Related Topics: History, Money, Politics, World History, Society, Environment, Nature
Goodreads rating: 3.83
(rated by 3163 readers)

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"American people are sleepwalking into a future of hardship and turbulence. James Howard Kunstler, one of our shrewdest and most engaging social commentators, tells what to expect when we pass the tipping point of global peak oil production and enter the long arc of depletion - economic, political, and social changes on an epochal scale - sooner than we think." "The Long Emergency will change everything. Globalism will wither. Life will become profoundly and intensely local. The consumer economy will be a strange memory. Suburbia - considered a birthright and a reality by millions of Americans - will become untenable. We will struggle to feed ourselves. We may exhaust and bankrupt ourselves in the effort to prop up the unsustainable. And finally, the United States may not hold together as a nation. We are entering an uncharted territory of history." The Long Emergency is a startling vision of what lies ahead, bringing new urgency and accessibility to the critical issues that will shape our future, and which we can no longer afford to ignore.
 

When Peak Oil Reshapes American Life

James Howard Kunstler envisions a turbulent post-peak-oil future. He examines sweeping economic, political, and social upheaval, from fading globalism and suburbia to increasingly local survival.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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