Here it is:
After the oil is gone
Say goodbye to your suburban house, yoke up that horse, and stand by to
repel pirates! Author James Howard Kunstler talks about the dire world of
his new book, "The Long Emergency."
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By Katharine Mieszkowski
When will the doom begin? It already has. "There have been no significant
discoveries of new oil since 2002," Kunstler says. And the Saudis have
screwed up their super-giant Ghawar oil field, long a fossil-fuel font for
the U.S. "They have damaged it by pumping enormous amounts of salt water
into it; in fact, the field itself may be entering depletion," he says.
In Kunstler's world, a teenager will be better off learning how to yoke up a
horse-drawn buggy than how to change the oil in a car. Woodshop will be more
important than computer literacy. Among Kunstler's predictions: The South
will devolve into agricultural feudalism and the Pacific Northwest will be
beset by a plague of pirates from Asia. Forget about sleek hydrogen-powered
cars coming to the rescue. For that matter, quit tilting your hopes toward
wind power.
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