James Howard Kuntsler Talks About Peak Oil, Collapse, and The Long Emergency - Part 1 of 2

Repost from Todays Author's: "Author James Howard Kunstler talks about his book "The Long Emergency" with host Gary McLouth. In the best-seller The Long Emergency, James Howard Kunstler explores how the terminal decline of oil production had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. The book explores the global oil predicament, climate change, and other shocks to the system with implications for how we will live in the decades ahead. In addition, Kunstler discusses his other books World Made By Hand and The Witch of Hebron a fictional series based on The Long Emergency, set in upstate New York in the not-distant future." - Part 1 of 2 - Please check out Today's Authors at http://www.todaysauthors.com/guests/jameshowardkunstler.html
More information about James Howard Kuntsler at www.kunstler.com

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[Odinsvoyage]

If you look through my favorited videos you will find many solutions to problems we are facing. That is why I have created this channel. To spread knowledge of simple solutions that already exist to the problems at hand. The challenge is that for many reasons information across the 'net is constantly being impoverished so many good videos disappear over time. As censorship increases, Youtube is decaying as a useful tool as well.

[Odinsvoyage]

Either way, we must break free from the growth economy. Growth forever on a finite planet is a cancer that is killing us all and nearly all life on the planet

[Odinsvoyage]

To anyone who is interested in farming and sustainable living please go on over to the Homegrown Goodness forum. It is filled with so much good information. You can google for it since youtube doesn't allow me to add links.

[Odinsvoyage]

The point is the Earth has amazing regenerative properties, but we are the only ones who can recover the planet now. Our hands have an amazing ability to create or to destroy. But, right now we are being 90% destructive and 10% creative. We could be again 90% creative and 10% destructive like we were during most of the vast time of humanities existence. Most of the problems we are faced with are human consciousness problems not technological problems.

[Odinsvoyage]

It will be an ugly transition, but also a beautiful one. Isn't killing and strangling off the planet like we are doing now ugly? In my short lifetime thus far (our human lifespan are dismally short anyway), I have watched the land around me be nearly obliterated. When I was a child, there was a vast wetland which is now drained with shopping malls. Seasonally the birds would convene and sky would literally blacken with birds. No more, just a bird here and there.

[symmetry08]

By 2040 whole conflicts between nations will be evident everywhere, between 2055-2060 oil will be exhausted - no more.

[itzmarko1]

We were warned 40 + years ago. The consensus should have be taken then. We are in a great deal of trouble. Between what was talked about in thiis video and elsewhere there is nothing we can do in terms of keeping hold of any semblance of a functional society. Only really small communities have a shot. But let me bring up the looming war over energy currently building up in the middle east.

[MrEddievanhalo]

James is right! Unfortunately people in America are too addicted to the industrial way of life. The future will be ugly because we've lost alot of survival knowledge that we once had. Farming for most people has become a thing of the past that we have to recover. The transition will be very tough.

[MrEnergyCzar]

Breaking the cheap oil dependent growth based economy will be an ugly transition.....

[Mojooverlord]

Thanks for this video.  We need to be aware in this country of what's coming.