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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.

Imprint

New York, NY : Grove Press, ; [Berkley] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2009.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	333.8232 K963l 2009	---	Available

Edition	1st Grove Press ed.
Description	vii, 339 p. ; 23 cm.
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.
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.
ISBN	9780802142498
	0802142494