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

User Review  - Jeff Valluzzi - Goodreads

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

User Review  - Idfaciamus - Goodreads

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

User Review  - Anthony - Goodreads

After letting it simmer for a few weeks I think these are the basic irks that converge into JHK's doomed imagined 21st century future: -Mismanaged resources. -Misappropriated space. -Abuse of energy ... Read full review

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

User Review  - Eric - Goodreads

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

User Review  - Francis Gahren - Goodreads

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

User Review  - Patrick L. - Goodreads

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

User Review  - Jeff Crunk - Goodreads

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

User Review  - Hugo De oliveira - Goodreads

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

User Review  - Richard - Goodreads

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

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

User Review  - Andrea Balfour - Goodreads

Kunstler presents a very compelling argument for oil having surpassed its peak production capability and the end of technological processes as we know it resulting from the loss of oil as it declines ... Read full review


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