The long emergency

The long emergency: surviving the end of oil, climate change, and other converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century
James Howard Kunstler (Afterword)
Publisher: New York : Grove Press, ; 2006, c2005.
ISBN: 0802142494   ISBN13: 9780802142498   DDC: 303.4973   Edition: (pbk.)

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

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Dewey Class: 303.4973 -- Social processes

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: vii, 324 p. ; 23 cm.
Edition Info: (pbk.)

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