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James Howard Kunsler's book "The Long Emergency"

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Submitted by Jim Wright (United States), Jan 6, 2009 at 18:40

Daniel Pipes:

The article by Kunsler in Newsmax, "10 Ways to Prepare for a Post-oil Society", is based on "The Long Emergency", which, in turn, is his book that presents of his argument underlying the Newsmax article. If you haven't read that book you really are not properly prepared to attack Hunsler for the Newsmax article.

I haven't read his novel "World Made By Hand" but I suspect it, too, is based on "The Long Emergency".

Jim Wright

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Articles stand or fall on their own. I reject having to read a book to assess an article.

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Our current trajectory will not continue; but energy is not the problem. [478 words]
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Michael SJan 13, 2017 13:29235318
2The price of fuels will soon be a moot point [1107 words]Michael SJan 14, 2017 16:44235318
James Howard Kunsler's book "The Long Emergency" [78 words]
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Jim WrightJan 6, 2009 18:40147184
He may be right, heaven forbid, for the wrong reasons. Serious people in and out of our gov't are concerned abt an electo-magnetic pulse attack. E.g. see http://www.empcommission.org/. [28 words]RobJan 6, 2009 10:03147137
He's mostly right on. [372 words]AlJan 6, 2009 19:41147137

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