The Long Emergency

James Howard Kunstler (Afterword by)

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Author
James Howard Kunstler (Afterword by)
Publish Date
2006-03-02
Subtitle
Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Cent
Book Type
Paperback
Number of Pages
324
Publisher Name
Grove Press
ISBN-10
0802142494
ISBN-13
9780802142498
citemno
099099
Edition
First Edition
Subject
Political Science
SKU
9780802142498

Description

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. The Long Emergency tells us just what to expect after we pass the tipping point of global peak oil production and the honeymoon of affordable energy is over, preparing us for economic, political, and social changes of an unimaginable scale.