TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kunstler,James Howard
TI  - The long emergency: surviving the converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century 
SN  - 0871138883 (hbk.)
AV  - TP 355  K96l 2005
U1  - 665.54 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Atlantic Monthly Press
KW  - Petroleum as fuel
KW  - United States
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Fossil fuels
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Renewable energy sources
KW  - Climate and civilization
KW  - Environmentalism
KW  - Petróleo como combustible
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Combustibles fósiles
KW  - Industria del petróleo
KW  - Fuentes de energía renovable
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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
N2  - What 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
ER  -