The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes...

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	The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the ... Grove Press, 2006 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 216 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

It Just Makes Sense

Kunstler tackles many subjects.......these are some, apart from the end of the oil age, not in order as I'm writing from memory,
Globalism, The industrial revolution, Suburbia, The depression, Human history, Consumerism and entropy, Ice ages and global warming, The world wars and others, Alternative energy and fuel, Politics, Medical science and environmental destruction.

The picture he draws is not a pretty one, the facts he explains are believable. His consequences for our waste are extreme.

I have read books on every one of the mentioned subjects and Kunstler picks snippets from each and leads you on a journey of fear and regret.
The Long Emergency left me pondering what might/could/should have been.

How could have we been so stupid to waste resources and a planet?
For me the book is an expose on the stupidity of a narcissistic or even psychopathic mankind, we cared for nothing but ourselves.
We thought and think we are so smart, we looked to the stars and wondered if other life existed. I wonder if their planets had the great fortune to receive a gift of millions of years of stored liquid energy.

Read the book and contemplate its deeper meaning. The future world Kunstler predicts is just that, a prediction, no one knows for sure what the future holds, we can just hope for the best or use our experience to minimise the overall calamity.

I wonder if anyone has written a book explaining what we should have done with the oil, what would the world be like now if we had managed our energy gifts responsibly?

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Kunstler does an excellent job of pulling together information on many subjects to provide a coherent forecast of the near future. He then uses his imagination to extrapolate further. An awesome and well written book.

Enjoyable read, for the most part.

I enjoyed reading most of this book, except for the rant against Wall Mart, that section seemed unrelated to the rest of the books arguments and subject matter, and a bit lefty to boot whilst most of the rest of the book seemed fairly politically agnostic.

It has been over a year since I read it, so there may have been other bits that bothered me, but I can't recall them.

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