The long emergency : surviving the end of oil, climate change , and other converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century /
James Howard Kunstler.
- New York : [Berkley] : Grove Press, ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2006, c2005.
- vii, 324 p. ; 23 cm.
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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