The Long Emergency

In The Long Emergency, by James Howard Kunstler, the first chapter talks about how in the future there will be something called a long Emergency. The long emergency according Kunstler is economic and political disorder on a scale that no one has ever seen. During the long emergency there will be a lot of diseases and that will affect our social and economic systems. The human life span will also start to disappear as well as our life styles. Some places in the United States of America will adapt to the changes better while others suffer.
The term cheap oil comes up often in this text. Kunstler says that we are at the end of the cheap fossil fuel era and that all our necessities and luxuries originate from cheap fossil fuels. The new technology and fuels could never replace fossil fuels in the same manner at which the world consumes it. America runs on oil and cant do with out it. Fossil fuels also have an effect on the carrying capacity of the earth.
At the end of the chapter he states, “If it happens that the human race doesn’t make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered…” Nothing that we did will be forgotten. We worked and thought long about things and how it worked.