A Social Critic Warns of Upheavals to Come

James Howard Kunstler, the journalist and social critic, has written books about suburbia that have become standard reading in architecture and urban-planning courses. His latest book, The Long Emergency (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005), makes dire predictions about America's future in an age of energy shortages, water scarcity, and climate change. Such pressures will cause economic upheavals, leading Americans to reorganize society around community businesses and local agriculture, he

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