Go out and get this book. Reading it could change your life. Things Kunstler wrote about in 2004 are coming to fruition now.

Today it is all about climate change, but climate change may just be one symptom of a much larger problem for society, energy consumption. There is a very good possibility that we we are reaching a limit as to how much oil (energy) we can produce. Our society has been built on an assumption of unlimited supply of affordable energy. Kunstler makes a case that this model may not be flexible enough to survive on a limited diet of energy let alone a decreasing supply of fuel. His style of writing is pretty confrontational and uncompromising but in this case I think that might be the right tone. It is worth reading in any case. Even if it isn't happening now, it will happen eventually and we need to be facing its reality. 

Review: The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

Kunstler is an odd man. This book is about half great and half terrible. It's mostly his views on Oil and what will happen when we run out of oil. Much of the book was very interesting, but I felt ... Read full review

Review: The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

A wonderful book on the coming apocalypse. The theme of the book is the fast approaching end of the hydro-carbon age and the wrenching transition into...whatever comes next. The end of the hydrocarbon ... Read full review

Review: The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

OK, I think i'm done with the "end of the world" books for a while... back to ignorant bliss. Read full review

Review: The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

From Barnes & Noble According to this fervent jeremiad, the best has already been. Frequent New York Times contributor James Howard Kunstler maintains that the Age of Oil is steadily dripping to a ... Read full review

Review: The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

With no mistake, this book is certainly a guide for the present, because it concentrates more about the future. James Howard Kunstler, wrote a book in order to warn us about what is supposed to come ... Read full review

Review: The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

The party could end this badly. It depends on variables Kunstler does not see as variables, such as timely energy substitutes and market stability during primary energy transition. The book should temper blind optimism. Read full review

Review: The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

Excelent historical analisys of the consumtpion of oil tīill nowadays, and also a good analisys about the renewable energy solutions and itīs problems to become a viable alternative to the oil ... Read full review

Review: The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

A sober look at a possible scenario for human civilization. Read full review