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The Long Emergency Ahead

By James Howard Kunstler, AlterNet. Posted September 8, 2005.


Will New Orleans and the devastated region around it be rebuilt on the hollow premise of Cheap Oil?

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James Howard Kunstler is a regular contributor to Orion magazine, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Monthly, and is the author of "The Long Emergency" (Atlantic Monthly Press). He drives a 1992 Toyota pickup truck, when he drives at all.

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