Rolling Stone: James Howard Kunstler: The Long Emergency

Rolling Stone: James Howard Kunstler: The Long Emergency

A summary of Kunstler's 2005 book on the impact of declining oil production and increased consumption: "Most of all, the Long Emergency will require us to make other arrangements for the way we live in the United States. America is in a special predicament due to a set of unfortunate choices we made as a society in the twentieth century. Perhaps the worst was to let our towns and cities rot away and to replace them with suburbia, which had the additional side effect of trashing a lot of the best farmland in America. Suburbia will come to be regarded as the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world."