Ebook: The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

A controversial hit that sparked debate among businessmen, environmentalists, and bloggers, The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler is an eye-opening look at the unprecedented challenges we face in the years ahead, as oil runs out and the global systems built on it are forced to change radically.;Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; 1. Sleepwalking into The Future; 2. Modernity and The Fossil Fuels Dilemma; 3. Geopolitics and The Global Oil Peak; 4. Beyond Oil: Why Alternative Fuels Won't Rescue Us; 5. Nature Bites Back: Climate Change, Epidemic Disease, Water Scarcity, Habitat Destruction, and The Dark Side of The Industrial Age; 6. Running on Fumes: The Hallucinated Economy; 7. Living in the Long Emergency; Epilogue; Afterword; Footnote; ch01_fn01; ch01_fn02; ch01_fn03; ch01_fn04; ch01_fn05; ch01_fn06; ch02_fn01; ch02_fn02; ch02_fn03; ch02_fn04; ch02_fn05