A two part conversation between Richard Heinberg, author of Peak Everything, The Party’s Over and the newly published The End of Growth, and James Howard Kunstler. The conversation covers peak oil, financial dysfunction, political convulsions, generational conflict, techno-grandiosity, the fate of industrial agriculture and the suburban living arrangement. Heinberg also reacts to being labeled a “Doomer.”.
KunstlerCast: The end of growth
By James Howard Kunstler, originally published by KunstlerCast
September 6, 2011
James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler lives in upstate New York and is the author of about 20 books, 14 novels and the rest are non-fiction. These include The Geography of Nowhere, about the suburbanisation of America, The Long Emergency, about the energy predicament and financial predicaments of our time, and the prospects for collapse, and Too Much Magic, an update of The Long Emergency about wishful thinking and technology. He also recently completed a four book series of novels set in the post-collapse American future under the rubric ‘World Made by Hand’.
Tags: Consumption & Demand, Culture & Behavior, Energy Policy, Fossil Fuels, Oil, Resource Depletion
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