The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
List Price: Our Price: $8.15 You Save: $5.85 (42%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Category: Book See more book details and other editions Book Summary InformationAfterword: James Howard KunstlerEdition: Paperback Published: 2006-03-02 ISBN: 0802142494 Number of pages: 336 Publisher: Grove Press Book Reviews of The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First CenturyBook Review: A Tsunami Warning !Kunstler's Book the Long Emergency is a 'Tsunami warning'. WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF OIL...what do you think the last 7 years have been about? It is both well written and tightly argued. The logic of it is dreadfully inescapable. Even if we agree that 'peak' oil (which most probably has already happened) is not the end of supply we must admit that it is the end of cheap supply and I think we are all seeing that at the pump. Add to that the potential for supply interruptions due to political instability and terrorism and..well...you can see the problem. Disruption could lead to cascading system failures throughout our economy reminding me of the sinking of the titanic. Once the four compartments were flooded the ships designer, Mr. Andrews, knew the ship would founder. We have been headed down an illusory primrose path with our McMansions and SUV's and our luck is about to run out. It is not that our society is addicted to oil it is that our entire supporting infrastructure is predicated on it. Without the inputs the house will come tumbling down and very rapidly indeed. Even if we could formulate a solution to the problem in time by utilizing some other combination of alternate energy sources the shape and character of our society would be forever altered. The most feasible types of alternative energy do not support a suburban sprawl based configuration. Kunstler is quite correct about this. Most likely we will have to retreat to more traditional community based local living arrangements. It is going to be a rough ride...but I have hope that we will make it in the end and be the better for it. I think the implications of Mr. Kuunstler's argument are too terrible for most people to fathom and so...they take the blue pill and go back to sleep.
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