The Long Emergency is a broad presentation of the profound effects that societies world-wide may feel as carbon-based fuels become scarce, as global temperatures increase, and as natural resources including food become more scarce. The author, James Kunstler, appears determined to wake us up, on an individual as well as collective basis, from what he describes as an "hallucination" i.e. that ample, cheap oil will be with us pretty much forever, and that our environment can withstand anything... See entire review