The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
by James Howard Kunstler
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Author: James Howard KunstlerAfterword: James Howard Kunstler
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
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Published: 2006-03-02
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Grove Press
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Book Review: Not Alarmist
Summary: 5 Stars
Most of the reviews are from 2005 when this book first came out. I want to add my 2cents to say that Kunstler's thesis seems even more likely now, 4 years later.
If the reviewers who called this book "alarmist" are accurate it's only because Americans have been very carefully protected from reality these last 40 years or so.
I was more fascinated than alarmed, and grateful to have found someone who can see the big picture. The author does a masterful job of putting the last 250 years in perspective.
The whole industrial age has been built upon a platform of available, often cheap, energy. This made possible conditions in the USA (e.g. suburbanization, agribusiness) that will make the decline in the availability of the most relied upon sources of energy, oil and gas, especially crisis provoking.
The Long Emergency left me with two lens through which to watch the coming reality unfold.
Peak oil results in a plateau during which conditions will fluctuate (prices, availability); we are in that period now. After this period comes the actual decline in oil and gas when permanent disruptions in economic and social life as we know it takes place.
Alas, because "leaders" are herding us blindly into a fantasy future (alternative fuels will be available, conservation will save us), many will be able to face reality only through a rear view mirror.
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