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The Long Emergency
Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century
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July 2005 -  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. James Howard Kunstler:
James Howard Kunstler was born in New York City in 1948. He is the author of two nonfiction books, The Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere, and eight previous novels, including The Halloween Ball, and An Embarrassment of Riches. He has been a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine and the Op-Ed page, where he has written on environmental and economic issues. "In the annals of doomsday literature...The Long Emergency is destined to become the new standard...The Long Emergency - Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century by James Howard Kunstler Represents a 'wake-up call' in the same sense that a hand grenade tossed through your bedroom window might serve as an alarm clock. The book is stark and frightening. Read it soon."—Jim Charlier, Daily Camera The Long Emergency
Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century
by James Howard Kunstler
ISBN: 0-87113-888-3
Price: US$23.00 * in Canada CAN$31.95
6 x 9, 320 pp
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