The Long Emergency: the "oil peak" and its long te

[mackro]

The Long Emergency

What's going to happen as we start running out of cheap gas to guzzle?

By JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER


http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7203633?rnd=1113420548000&has-player=true&version=6.0.10.505

I can't believe this.  This may be the most useful Rolling Stone magazine article I've ever read.  This may be the only useful Rolling Stone magazine I've ever read.

I've seen the visual version of this essay by James Howard Kunstler before from a DVD set from the TAD conference in Monterey, CA last year.

Essentially, we've hit the peak period of our oil resources.  Getting the second half of the world's oil is going to be a task and a half.  Essentially, unless unforeseen technologies save us in the interim, we'll be entering a depression/"emergency mode" that's going to deeply affect North America (not to mention the rest of the world, of course, though the article is centric to the U.S.)

Basically, if you love travelling, try to do as much of it as soon as you can before you can't afford it.

I highly recommend reading this.

[Andrew_TSKS]

rolling stone's been running amazing political journalism on at least a sometime basis the whole time they've existed. just last year they ran an article by robert f. kennedy jr. on the bush administration's devastation of the environment that won awards and got a lot of recognition.

i have this issue of rs in my backpack right now. i'll be reading it soon.

[davy]

shit.