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RECORD NUMBER: 325 OF 609Main Title | Long emergency : surviving the end of oil, climate change , and other converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century / | |||||||||||
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Author | Kunstler, James Howard. | |||||||||||
Publisher | Grove Press, ; | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2006 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 69846129 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 0802142494 (pbk.) 9780802142498 (pbk.) | |||||||||||
Subjects | Petroleum as fuel--Social aspects--United States ; Fossil fuels--Social aspects--United States ; Petroleum industry and trade--United States--History--20th century ; Petroleum industry and trade--United States--History--21st century ; Petroleum industry and trade--United States--Economic conditions--20th century ; Petroleum industry and trade--United States--Economic conditions--21st century ; Renewable energy sources--Social aspects--United States ; Climate and civilization ; Environmentalism--Social aspects--United States | |||||||||||
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Collation | vii, 324 p. ; 23 cm. | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Contents Notes | Sleepwalking into the future -- Modernity and the fossil fuels dilemma -- Geopolitics and the global oil peak -- Beyond oil : why alternative fuels won't rescue us -- Nature bites back : climate change, epidemic disease, water scarcity, habitat destruction, and the dark side of the industrial age -- Running on fumes : the hallucinated economy -- Living in the long emergency. |