Living in the long emergency : global crisis, the failure of the futurists, and the early adapters who are showing us the way forward

Summary:

"James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency, which sold approximately 36K copies, returns with a new book exploring the looming collapse of the techno-industrial economy, featuring profiles of individuals who have drastically altered their lives due to financial difficulties"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Where are we in the story?. Hey, what happened to peak oil?
The alt-energy freak show
Portraits in heroic adaptation. The Garden of Eden... approximately
A nation of one in a place called Limbo
At Land's End on the Left Coast
Strange doings in the quiet corner
Making whiskey in the hills
Fighting for life in small business
The trials and heartaches of a Gen Xer
Now what...?. Climate change
The food question and other nagging details
Extinctions near and far
Money, oil, and their by-products
Politics: Jacobins awokening
Cultural notes: fumbling towards Kafka's Castle.

Item details

ISBN: 1948836939
ISBN: 9781948836937
Physical Description: 277 pages ; 24 cm
print
Publisher: Dallas : BenBella Books, 2020.

Contents / Notes

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Where are we in the story?. Hey, what happened to peak oil?; The alt-energy freak show
Portraits in heroic adaptation. The Garden of Eden... approximately; A nation of one in a place called Limbo; At Land's End on the Left Coast; Strange doings in the quiet corner; Making whiskey in the hills; Fighting for life in small business; The trials and heartaches of a Gen Xer
Now what...?. Climate change; The food question and other nagging details; Extinctions near and far; Money, oil, and their by-products; Politics: Jacobins awokening; Cultural notes: fumbling towards Kafka's Castle.