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Author:

Kunstler, James Howard.

Title:

The long emergency : surviving the end of oil, climate change , and other converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century / James Howard Kunstler.

Publisher:

Distributed by Publishers Group West,
Distributed by Publishers Group West,

Copyright Date:

2006, c2005

Description:

vii, 324 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Petroleum as fuel--Social aspects--United States.
Fossil fuels--Social aspects--United States.
Petroleum industry and trade--United States--History--20th century.
Petroleum industry and trade--United States--History--21st century.
Petroleum industry and trade--United States--Economic conditions--20th century.
Petroleum industry and trade--United States--Economic conditions--21st century.
Renewable energy sources--Social aspects--United States.
Climate and civilization.
Environmentalism--Social aspects--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780802142498
9780802142498 (pbk.)
0802142494 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)69846129

Locations:

JLPF081 -- Ericson Public Library (Boone)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

IBAX173 -- North Iowa Area Community College Library (Mason City)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)