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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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Petroleum as fuel--Social aspects--United States.
Fossil fuels--Social aspects--United States.
Petroleum industry and trade--History--United States--20th century.
Petroleum industry and trade--History--United States--21st century.
Petroleum industry and trade--Economic conditions--United States--20th century.
Petroleum industry and trade--Economic conditions--United States--21st century.
Renewable energy sources--Social aspects--United States.
Climate and civilization.
Environmentalism--Social aspects--United States.
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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.
0802142494 (pbk.) 9780802142498 (pbk.)
Petroleum as fuel--Social aspects--United States.
Fossil fuels--Social aspects--United States.
Petroleum industry and trade--History--United States--20th century.
Petroleum industry and trade--History--United States--21st century.
Petroleum industry and trade--Economic conditions--United States--20th century.
Petroleum industry and trade--Economic conditions--United States--21st century.
Renewable energy sources--Social aspects--United States.
Climate and civilization.
Environmentalism--Social aspects--United States.
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