The Long Emergency

Kunstler presents the apocalyptic argument that global oil production has peaked and will soon dwindle, and that alternative energy sources cannot fill the gap, particularly in the area of transportation. Backing his analysis and predictions with a range of statistics, Kunstler gives an overview of energy production and technologies, world economic and political history, and climatology before moving into his predictions of the death of the suburbs and big cities and a future "dazed and crippled America".