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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Apr 8, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> Bev, I just finished reading James Kunstler's (of Clusterfuck Nation  
> fame)
> new novel "World Made by Hand".  [which I highly recommend]  It  
> takes place in
> 2025 in a post oil world.

"Another book, “The Long Emergency” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005), by  
James Howard Kunstler, an author and journalist who writes about  
economic and environmental issues, argues that American suburbs and  
cities may soon lay desolate as people, starved of oil, are forced  
back to the land to adopt a hardscrabble, 19th-century-style agrarian  
life."

That's an excerpt from an article this morning that gives examples of  
mainstream Americans who are stocking up and preparing for difficult  
times:

Duck and Cover: It’s the New Survivalism
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By ALEX WILLIAMS
Published: April 6, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/fashion/06survival.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1