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The Long Emergency

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The Long Emergency	comment	The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century is a book by James Howard Kunstler exploring the consequences of a world oil production peak, coinciding with the forces of climate change, resurgent diseases, water scarcity, global economic instability, and warfare to cause major trouble for future generations.The book's principal theme explores the effects of a peak in oil extraction on American society as well as the rest of the world. In both this book and in his other writings, Kunstler argues that the economic upheavals caused by peak oil will force Americans to live in more localized, self-sufficient communities.
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The Long Emergency / int_1b45acae	type	Post-Peak Oil
The Long Emergency / int_1b45acae	comment	Post-Peak Oil: Kunstler's premise is that easy-to-find oil is the foundation of industrial society and the pervasiveness of its effects is not widely appreciated. Through the 21st century, hydrocarbons like oil and natural gas will become increasingly difficult to obtain, becoming increasingly expensive and ultimately unavailable.
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The Long Emergency / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Long Emergency / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Kunstler claims that Global Warming brought by the burning of fossil fuels coupled with decelerating industrialism because of depleting them is leading to the breakdown of society.
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The Long Emergency / int_3407c500	type	The World Is Not Ready
The Long Emergency / int_3407c500	comment	The World Is Not Ready: The book argues that the pervasiveness of the effects of cheap and plentiful oil is not widely appreciated, leading to potential unpreparedness for the long emergency.
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The Long Emergency / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
The Long Emergency / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Kunstler's portrayal of the long emergency leans toward cynicism, highlighting the potential for mass starvation, disease, and civil unrest.
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The Long Emergency / int_3b39c254	type	Dystopia
The Long Emergency / int_3b39c254	comment	Dystopia: The book portrays a bleak future in which transportation becomes difficult or impossible, causing the unavailability of necessary commodities and leading to mass suffering.
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The Long Emergency / int_5674af1a	type	The Famine
The Long Emergency / int_5674af1a	comment	The Famine: Kunstler predicts that the scarcity of resources will lead to increasing costs of shipping food and manufactured items, eventually resulting in prohibitively expensive commodities and potential civil unrest.
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The Long Emergency / int_6114a875	type	Lost Technology
The Long Emergency / int_6114a875	comment	Lost Technology: Kunstler argues that technologies like coal and nuclear power, which are considered environmentally harmful or risky, will become necessary despite their drawbacks.
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The Long Emergency / int_61c96b0a	type	Fertile Feet
The Long Emergency / int_61c96b0a	comment	Fertile Feet: Kunstler emphasizes the importance of local communities becoming self-sufficient in food production as a means to combat the scarcity of resources.
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The Long Emergency / int_74e9a5b1	type	Scavenger World
The Long Emergency / int_74e9a5b1	comment	Scavenger World: The scarcity of resources in Kunstler's vision implies a future where societies struggle to obtain necessary commodities, leading to a potential collapse.
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The Long Emergency / int_76933235	type	Depopulation Bomb
The Long Emergency / int_76933235	comment	Depopulation Bomb: Kunstler discusses the possibility of human population decline due to diseases and explores various perspectives on this issue. He presents three viewpoints: nature's revenge against human arrogance, a moral victory against wickedness, and a positive development for the planet's health. Kunstler also discusses the irony of advocating population control while relying on resources like cheap oil for contraception. He argues that even stabilizing population levels may not prevent exceeding the Earth's carrying capacity. Kunstler concludes by highlighting the profound and unexpected repercussions that a decline in population or demographic changes would have on everyday life.
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The Long Emergency / int_86e12b9a	type	City Noir
The Long Emergency / int_86e12b9a	comment	City Noir: Large cities are depicted as particularly vulnerable to the effects of the long emergency, facing mass starvation, disease, and civil unrest.
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The Long Emergency / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
The Long Emergency / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Kunstler predicts a potential societal collapse due to the scarcity of resources.
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The Long Emergency / int_940a5958	type	Artificial Stupidity
The Long Emergency / int_940a5958	comment	Artificial Stupidity: Kunstler argues that governments will be incapable of effectively managing the problems caused by scarcity and collapse.
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The Long Emergency / int_b535a9d6	type	False Utopia
The Long Emergency / int_b535a9d6	comment	False Utopia: Alternative energy sources, such as hydroelectric, solar, and wind power, are presented as inadequate to meet energy needs in the face of scarcity.
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The Long Emergency / int_d17d7135	type	Death by Genre Savviness
The Long Emergency / int_d17d7135	comment	Death by Genre Savviness: Kunstler suggests that alternative energy sources will be insufficient to meet the energy needs, leading to dire consequences.
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The Long Emergency / int_d71d51fd	type	The End of the World as We Know It
The Long Emergency / int_d71d51fd	comment	The End of the World as We Know It: Kunstler's vision of the long emergency suggests a significant shift in the way society functions, with mass starvation, disease, and civil unrest becoming prevalent.
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The Long Emergency / int_d8fdf777	type	Terminally Dependent Society
The Long Emergency / int_d8fdf777	comment	Terminally Dependent Society: Everything characteristic of modern life could have been possible only with the harnessing of fossil fuels. The scarcity of petroleum will cause significant problems for transportation and the generation of electrical power. In addition, shipping of food and manufactured items will become increasingly expensive, ultimately prohibitively so. Also, natural gas is vitally important to food production as it is the raw material for much of commercial crop fertilizers. In the industrialized West, most food production and manufacturing are performed far from and abstracted away from the consumer.
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The Long Emergency / int_e5e07b2d	type	You Cannot Grasp the True Form
The Long Emergency / int_e5e07b2d	comment	You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Zig-Zagged. Human brains are not equipped to process events on scales longer than a human lifetime. However, it is known that hydrocarbons accumulated in the Earth's crust over hundreds of millions of years.
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The Long Emergency / int_e62dfb96	type	No Endor Holocaust
The Long Emergency / int_e62dfb96	comment	No Endor Holocaust: Kunstler dismisses hydrogen as a viable energy source, as it cannot be obtained directly from the earth and requires extraction from other sources with a net energy loss.
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The Long Emergency / int_fbc54605	type	Riches to Rags
The Long Emergency / int_fbc54605	comment	Riches to Rags: Kunstler maintains that suburban sprawl is a living arrangement with no future in an oil-scarce world.
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