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Living in the Long Emergency: Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward

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By (author): James Howard Kunstler

Forget the speculation of pundits and media personalities. For anyone asking Now what? the answer is out there. You just have to know where to look. 

In his 2005 book, The Long Emergency, James Howard Kunstler described the global predicaments that would pitch the USA into political and economic turmoil in the 21st centurythe end of affordable oil, climate irregularities, and flagging economic growth, to name a few. Now, he returns with a book that takes an up-close-and-personal approach to how real people are living nowsurviving The Long Emergency as it happens. 

Through his popular blog, Clusterf*ck Nation, Kunstler has had the opportunity to connect with people from across the country. They've shared their stories with himsometimes over years of correspondenceand in Living in the Long Emergency: Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward, he shares them with us, offering an eye-opening and unprecedented look at what's really going on out there in the USand beyond.

Kunstler also delves deep into his past predictions, comparing and contrastingt hem with the way things have unfolded with unflinching honesty. Further, he turns an eye to what's ahead, laying out the strategies that will help all of us as we navigate this new world. 

With personal accounts from a Vermont baker, homesteaders, a building contractor in the Baltimore ghetto, a white nationalist, and many more, Living in the Long Emergency is a unique and timely exploration of how the lives of everyday Americans are being transformed, for better and for worse, and what these stories tell us both about the future and about human perseverance. See more
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  • Weight: 448g
  • Dimensions: 159 x 236mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Mar 2020
  • Publisher: BenBella Books
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781948836937

About James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler is the author of more than twenty books both nonfiction and fiction including The Geography of Nowhere The Long Emergency Too Much Magic and the World Made By Hand series set in a post-economic-collapse American future. Kunstler started his journalism career at the Boston Phoenix and was an editor and staff writer for Rolling Stone before dropping out to write books. He's published op-eds and articles in the New York Times Wall Street Journal Washington Post The Atlantic and The American Conservative. He was born and raised in New York City but has lived in upstate New York for many years.

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