THE LONG EMERGENCY

The Long Emergency, by James Howard Kunstler

THE LONG EMERGENCY Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century James Howard Kunstler New York: Grove Press, 2005 (Epilogue 2006)				Rating: 5.0 High
ISBN-13 978-0-8021-4249-8
ISBN-10 0-8021-4249-4	324pp.	SC	$14.00

1.	Sleepwalking into the Future	1
2.	Modernity and the Fossil Fuels Dilemma	22
3.	Geopolitics and the Global Oil Peak	61
4.	Beyond Oil: Why Alternative Fuels Won't Rescue Us	100
5.	Nature Bites Back: Climate Change, Epidemic Disease, Water Scarcity, Habitat Destruction, and the Dark Side of the Industrial Age	147
6.	Running on Fumes: The Hallucinated Economy	185
7.	Living in the Long Emergency	235
	Epilogue	309

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