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Cargando... Long emergency : Surviving the end of oil, climate change, and other converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century (2005)por James Howard Kunstler
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Many people view the author as Chicken Little. However, if even half of the events he describes come to pass, life on earth after oil supplies are depleted will never be the same - and I'm not so sure that's a bad thing. In any event, we all should begin to think (and act) as though his predictions just might be true. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best. ...and plant a garden in your back yard. In fact, Barbara Kingsolver's book ANIMAL , VEGETABLE, MIRACLE is a good pairing to read with this one. ( ) There are a few other Peak Oil resources I would recommend before 'The Long Emergency' to those who are new to the topic. However, once you've 'dipped your toes' into the waters and have a basic understanding of the theory, I defiantly endorse exploring this book. The greatest strength of 'The Long Emergency' is Kunstler's unapologetic, unabashed pessimism. Given the gravity of the 'challenges' that Peak Oil represent, I find that far too many books on the subject are woefully optimistic. It is strangely refreshing to encounter an author who is willing to slap the reader in the face with the cold realities and dire implications of Peak Oil. The sections on disease and climate change are less compelling than the predominant sections focused on Peak Oil. I appreciate Kunstler's attempt to address the various 'converging catastrophes' in a single volume; however, the book probably would have been most effective if its focus was not dispersed over such a wide range. Keep in mind that skeptics or the otherwise uninitiated are likely to dismiss this book as "alarmist". Do not try to introduce Peak Oil to anyone by giving them this book. Otherwise recommended to those who are familiar with the subject. Back in the seventies, I read Rolling Stone religiously because I loved reportage by the likes of Hunter S. Thompson, James Howard Kunstler and others. Then Thompson blew his brains out, Jann Wenner came out of the closet, and the whole enterprise went South. For all I can tell, Mr. Kunstler -- when he fled the burning building -- must have left his brain unnoticed in a corner somewhere. If the first two pages of "The Long Emergency" are in any way typical of what Kunstler writes today, then Mr. Kunstler has sold me his last book. The typesetting is atrocious, the "vicissitudes" are "enormous," and ideas borrowed from Bob Heinlein in 1958 at this date seem stale. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"American people are sleepwalking into a future of hardship and turbulence. James Howard Kunstler, one of our shrewdest and most engaging social commentators, tells what to expect when we pass the tipping point of global peak oil production and enter the long arc of depletion - economic, political, and social changes on an epochal scale - sooner than we think." "The Long Emergency will change everything. Globalism will wither. Life will become profoundly and intensely local. The consumer economy will be a strange memory. Suburbia - considered a birthright and a reality by millions of Americans - will become untenable. We will struggle to feed ourselves. We may exhaust and bankrupt ourselves in the effort to prop up the unsustainable. And finally, the United States may not hold together as a nation. We are entering an uncharted territory of history."."The Long Emergency is a startling vision of what lies ahead, bringing new urgency and accessibility to the critical issues that will shape our future, and which we can no longer afford to ignore."--BOOK JACKET. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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