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The Long Emergency |
Monday, May 1 @ 7PM |
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What will happen when global warming, disease, and population overshoot collide with the end of the cheap oil age? Will the new global economy be able to survive? Could corporations like Wal-Mart and McDonald’s, built on the premise of cheap transportation, become a thing of the past? Will suburbia collapse when car culture comes to an end? Riveting and authoritative, James Howard Kunstler’s The Long Emergency is a startling vision of what lies ahead, bringing new urgency and accessibility to the critical issues that will shape our future, and which we can no longer afford to ignore. “It used to be that only environmentalists and paranoids warned about the world running out of oil and the future it could bring: crashing economies, resource wars, social breakdown, agony at the pump. Not anymore. . . . Not long ago, a Jeremiah like Kunstler would have been dismissed as a kook. . . . As brilliant as it is baleful . . . and we disregard it at our peril.” —The Washington Post James Howard Kunstler is the author of three other nonfiction books, The Geography of Nowhere, Home from Nowhere, and The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, as well as nine novels, including Maggie Darling, A Modern Romance, The Halloween Ball, and An Embarrassment of Riches. He has been an editor with Rolling Stone and his articles have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and the New York Times Magazine. www.kunstler.com.
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