The long emergency

The long emergency: surviving the converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century
James Howard Kunstler,
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2005.
ISBN: 0871138883   ISBN13: 9780871138880  

Notes:

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 funes: the
hallucinated economy -- Living in the long emergency.

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: vii, 307 p. ; 24 cm.

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