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

By: Kunstler, James Howard.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2005Edition: 1st ed.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.Description: vii, 307 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0871138883.Subject(s): Petroleum as fuel -- Social aspects -- United States | Fossil fuels -- Social aspects -- United States | 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 -- Social aspects -- United States | Climate and civilization | Environmentalism -- Social aspects -- United StatesDDC classification: 303.4973
Contents:
Sleepwalking into the future -- Modernity and the fossil fuels dilemma -- Geopolitics and the global oil peak -- Beyond oil: 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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Includes bibliographical references.

Sleepwalking into the future -- Modernity and the fossil fuels dilemma -- Geopolitics and the global oil peak -- Beyond oil: 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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