The Long Emergency : Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

A controversial hit that sparked debate among businessmen, environmentalists, and bloggers, The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler is an eye-opening look at the unprecedented challenges we face in the years ahead, as oil runs out and the global systems built on it are forced to change radically.;Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; 1. Sleepwalking into The Future; 2. Modernity and The Fossil Fuels Dilemma; 3. Geopolitics and The Global Oil Peak; 4. Beyond Oil: Why Alternative Fuels Won't Rescue Us; 5. Nature Bites Back: Climate Change, Epidemic Disease, Water Scarcity, Habitat Destruction, and The Dark Side of The Industrial Age; 6. Running on Fumes: The Hallucinated Economy; 7. Living in the Long Emergency; Epilogue; Afterword; Footnote; ch01\_fn01; ch01\_fn02; ch01\_fn03; ch01\_fn04; ch01\_fn05; ch01\_fn06; ch02\_fn01; ch02\_fn02; ch02\_fn03; ch02\_fn04; ch02\_fn05 Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents 1. Sleepwalking into The Future 2. Modernity and The Fossil Fuels Dilemma 3. Geopolitics and The Global Oil Peak 4. Beyond Oil: Why Alternative Fuels Won't Rescue Us 5. Nature Bites Back: Climate Change, Epidemic Disease, Water Scarcity, Habitat Destruction, and The Dark Side of The Industrial Age 6. Running on Fumes: The Hallucinated Economy 7. Living in the Long Emergency Epilogue Afterword Footnote ch01_fn01 ch01_fn02 ch01_fn03 ch01_fn04 ch01_fn05 ch01_fn06 ch02_fn01 ch02_fn02 ch02_fn03 ch02_fn04 ch02_fn05 Ch02_fn06ch02_fn07 ch02_fn08 ch02_fn09 ch02_fn10 ch02_fn11 ch02_fn12 ch02_fn13 ch03_fn01 ch03_fn02 ch03_fn03 ch03_fn04 ch03_fn05 ch04_fn01 ch04_fn02 ch04_fn03 ch04_fn04 ch04_fn05 ch04_fn06 ch04_fn07 ch04_fn08 ch05_fn01 ch05_fn02 ch05_fn03 ch05_fn04 ch05_fn05 ch05_fn06 ch05_fn07 ch05_fn08 ch05_fn09 ch05_fn10 ch06_fn01 ch06_fn02 ch06_fn03 ch06_fn04 ch06_fn05 ch07_fn01 ch07_fn02 ch07_fn03 ch07_fn04 ch07_fn05 ch07_fn06 ch07_fn07 ch07_fn08 The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century is a book by James Howard Kunstler (Grove/Atlantic, 2005) exploring the consequences of a world oil production peak, coinciding with the forces of climate change, resurgent diseases, water scarcity, global economic instability and warfare to cause major trouble for future generations.The book's principal theme explores the effects of a peak in oil production, predicted by many geologists, on American society as well as the rest of the world. In both this book and in his other writings, Kunstler argues that the economic upheavals caused by peak oil will force Americans to live in more localized, self-sufficient communities. A “frightening and important” look at our unsustainable future ( Time Out Chicago ). A controversial hit that has sparked debate among business leaders, environmentalists, and others, The Long Emergency is an eye-opening look at the unprecedented challenges we face in the years ahead, as oil runs out and the global systems built on it are forced to change radically. From the author of The Geography of Nowhere , it is a book that “should be read, digested, and acted upon by every conscientious U.S. politician and citizen” (Michael Shuman, author of Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age ).