The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century
Author: James Howard Kunstler
The last two hundred years have seen the greatest explosion of progress and wealth in the history of mankind. But the age of oil, that fuelled this expansion, is coming rapidly to an end. The depletion of fossil fuels is about to change radically life as we know it, and do so much sooner than we think. In The Long Emergency, the distinguished commentator and analyst James….Read More
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