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

By James Howard Kunstler

Book information

Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0871138883, 9780871138880
Open Library ID
OL22246910M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4876133 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
323\323
Topic
Economy
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

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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