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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

Kunstler defines the coming world

Jim Kunstler, who is a determined gadfly and I think an honest lover of the American land, is trying to wake the lot of us out of our stupor and make us realize what he sees clearly. He has made a shtick (and it is a successful one as indicated by the fact he has just had to conceal his email address to, as he says, get something besides correspondence done) out of the coming oil depletion, drop off, "peaking," or whatever else you want to call it. At best, or thereabouts, we have another decade to motor around like crazy in the landscape burning ever dearer gasoline, but the END IS IN SIGHT. The real gloomers say that in a very few years we are headed into an energy slide that will deliver us to a stone-age world faster that you can say Jack Robinson, and say they, a stone-age world will do well to support a sixth of our present world population. Kunstler is no such Ultimate Gloomer, but he does say we need to get busy devising alternatives to what he calls our Happy Motoring Utopia, and has a litmus test for our collective intelligence: can we see that we need to rebuild our railroads and get off our large rear ends and do it? Answer so far, no. Has busy, bad Bush ever mentioned it? No. Do we really need to do it? But yes. The issues are presented in Kunstler's "The Long Emergency" wittilly, trenchantly, even amusingly, but they are there and they are dire, Jack, and no kidding. I'd a little fault the author for taking man-made (as opposed to longterm geological) global warming perhaps a little too seriously, and I see no real appreciation by him of the exponential slide into financial disaster that was initiated (to use just a recent date) by the fastening onto the backs of the English speaking peoples of the money system originated by the Bank of England 300 years ago, but apart from these two cavils I'd heartily recommend reading this book in preference to endlessly perusing the pages of the "clueless" (Kunstler's word) New York Times until one's eyes glaze over. Kunstler's website, refreshed weekly on Mondays is [...]

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The Long Emergency

An incredibly eye-opening book. The Long Emergency was used extensively in research for my own novel: Sunset on Ghawar. I just love Kunstler's writing - The LE and the Geography of Nowhere have prominent spots in my library. I can't wait for his new novel: World Made by Hand. Chad Sands (Author, Sunset on Ghawar)

Great Book!

Great book. The most amazing point is our lack of rail infrastructure.
No politician has addressed this point. None will start the US on a road (rail) of solutions before we hit a tipping point.

We are in the Long Emergency

This book is for those interested in what the future might hold as our infrastructure is overloaded and resources are becoming expensive and limited. This book will convince the reader that there are major changes in our future and our standard of living. It will also give you some insight as to what to do about it to. Highly recommend this book and the Geography of Nowhere.

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