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100 1 $aKunstler, James Howard.
245 14 $aThe long emergency :$bsurviving the converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century /$cJames Howard Kunstler.
260 $aLondon :$bAtlantic,$c2005.
300 $av, 307 pages ;$c24 cm
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505 0 $aSleepwalking 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.
520 $aWhat will happen when our current plagues of global warming, epidemic disease, and overpopulation collide to exacerbate the end of the oil age? The last two hundred years have seen the greatest explosion of progress and wealth in the history of mankind, much of it based on the exploitation of cheap, nonrenewable fossil-fuel energy. Our daily enjoyment of oil and gas has given us the energy equivalent of three hundred slaves per person in the industrialized nations. But life as we know it is about to change radically, and much sooner than we think. No combination of alternative energies will permit us to continue living the way we do, or even close to it. This book tells us just what to expect after the honeymoon of affordable energy is over, preparing us for economic, political, and social changes of an unimaginable scale.--From publisher description.
650 0 $aFossil fuels$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aEnvironmentalism$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aClimate and civilization.
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