Living in the Long Emergency

Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward

By: James Howard Kunstler

Narrated by: David de Vries

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 century - the 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 now - surviving 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 him - sometimes over years of correspondence - and 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 US - and beyond.

Coming from all walks of life, the individuals you’ll meet in these pages have one thing in common: their stories acutely illustrate the changing realities real people are facing - and coping with - every day. In profiles of their fascinating lives, Kunstler paints vivid, human portraits that offer a “slice of life” from people whose struggles and triumphs all too often go ignored.

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.

©2020 James Howard Kunstler (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

A lot to think about excellent book

This book has told me where I plan to travel this spring and summer. I will be moving in the next six months that is for sure

if it's 2020 or later, you need to read this book.

For just a moment, suspend your hope or your firm belief that things in the Western world will return to normal.
Listen with an open mind, at the possible ways things may very well play out.
And prepare yourself and your family once finished.

A funny Thing Happened On the Way to the American Dream

Reality caught up with the “cliche.” Now what? If what we are truly experiencing is actually a nightmare, we need to wake up! Mr Kuntsler has a mind like no others. He conveys the hard realities of our Long Emergency straight from the hip. You may not agree with all of what he writes, but lose your chains of illusion and consider what is obvious. None of us will make it out alive. So, make your voices heard and your actions productive.

With respect

Interesting people treated with respect, large ideas handled concisely, hope for man in the future.

Must listen

Be prepared! The long emergency is coming whether we want it to or not.
Do it