Living in the long emergency : global crisis, the failure of the futurists, and the early adapters who are showing us the way forward

Author

James Howard Kunstler

Call Number

• 303.49 K9661.2 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Dallas : BenBella Books, [2020]

Physical Description

vi, 277 pages ; 25 cm

Summary

"James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency, which sold approximately 36K copies, returns with a new book exploring the looming collapse of the techno-industrial economy, featuring profiles of individuals who have drastically altered their lives due to financial difficulties"--

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

• Where are we in the story?. Hey, what happened to peak oil?; The alt-energy freak show
• Portraits in heroic adaptation. The Garden of Eden... approximately; A nation of one in a place called Limbo; At Land's End on the Left Coast; Strange doings in the quiet corner; Making whiskey in the hills; Fighting for life in small business; The trials and heartaches of a Gen Xer
• Now what...?. Climate change; The food question and other nagging details; Extinctions near and far; Money, oil, and their by-products; Politics: Jacobins awokening; Cultural notes: fumbling towards Kafka's Castle.