![]() ![]() There may be a president and he may be in Minneapolis now, but people aren't sure. Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food is grown locally at great expense of time and energy, and the outside world is largely unknown. After the catastrophes converged-the end of oil, climate change, global pandemics, and resource wars-they are doing whatever they can to get by. For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is not what they thought it would be. With World Made by Hand, an astonishing work of speculative fiction, Kunstler makes an imaginative leap into the future, a few decades hence, and shows us what life may be like following the long emergency. Offering a shocking vision for the coming trauma of our post-oil future, The Long Emergency was a tremendous success and a best seller, selling over 100,000 copies. He observed that the terminal decline of oil production, combined with the perils of climate change, had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. In his previous book, celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the age of globalization and mankind's explosive progress over the last two hundred years was based on the availability of cheap fossil fuels. ![]()
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