Title Living in the long emergency : global crisis, the failure of the futurists, and the early adapters who are showing us the way forward / James Howard Kunstler.

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Dallas : BenBella Books, 2020.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department	909.83 KUN	Storage
Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction	665.5 KUNSTLER	Check Shelf

Description	277 pages ; 24 cm
Note	Includes index.
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.
Subject	Petroleum as fuel -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Climate and civilization -- United States.
	Environmentalists -- United States.
	Financial crises -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
	Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2016.
	United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
	Social justice -- United States.
	Climate and civilization. (OCoLC)fst00864228
	Environmentalists. (OCoLC)fst00913554
	Financial crises. (OCoLC)fst00924607
	Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
	Presidents -- Election. (OCoLC)fst01075747
	Social justice. (OCoLC)fst01122603
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	2000-2099
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Online version: Kunstler, James Howard, 1948- Living in the long emergency Dallas : BenBella Books, 2020 9781950665129 (DLC) 2019037851
ISBN	9781948836937 (hardcover)
	1948836939 (hardcover)
	9781950665129 (ebook)

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