The long emergency : surviving the converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century / James Howard Kunstler

Author: Kunstler, James Howard
Published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2005]
Copyright Date: ©2005
Edition: 1st ed.
Physical Description: vii, 307 pages ; 24 cm

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Sleepwalking into the future -- Modernity and the fossil fuels dilemma -- Geopolitics and the global oil peak -- Beyond oll: why alternative fuels won't rescue us -- Nature bites back: climate change, epidemic disease, water scarcity, habitat destruction, and the dark side of the industrial age -- Running on fumes: the hallucinated economy -- Living in the long emergency.

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Petroleum as fuel—United States—Social aspects
Fossil fuels—United States—Social aspects
Petroleum industry and trade—United States—History—20th century
Petroleum industry and trade—United States—History—21st century
Petroleum industry and trade—United States—Economic conditions—20th century
Petroleum industry and trade—United States—Economic conditions—21st century
Renewable energy sources—United States—Social aspects
Climate and civilization
Environmentalism—United States—Social aspects

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0871138883

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The long emergency : surviving the converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century / James Howard Kunstler

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