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“Dire - and maybe alarmist - but definitely thought-provoking.”
Joel M wrote this review 13 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“freightenibg, but fun, too”
Barry A wrote this review 3 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Could use some constructive suggestions, not just doomsday prophecies.”
Heidi W wrote this review Monday, November 2 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This is simultaneously the most important book and the scariest book I have read in a while. I am half way through it and I really hope he offers some suggestions because as it stands now on page 150, I am in a panic about a future with no more fossil fuels. ”
Pam wrote this review Wednesday, February 25 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Probably the most important book I have read in the last ten years.”
Jamie W wrote this review Friday, December 12 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Very good book... full of in depth explanation and lots of footnotes! :)”
Renee wrote this review Friday, October 3 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“A MUST READ”
Greenwitch wrote this review Thursday, June 19 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“My thoughts - not a "review."
Matthew G wrote this review Sunday, March 9 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
I've been reading this guy's blog, Clusterf%$* Nation, for a long time, and I've been thinking about peak oil since the early 90s. I indulged my Malthusian wallow tendencies and read this book. Scary as hell. Still working through what to think/do about it. Whether or not the transition from oil to whatever comes next will be as rocky as he believes, I do agree that a lot of the lifestyle choices most of us (Americans) have made are pretty unsustainable.”
“This is a future non-fiction version of Jose Saramago's Blindness. A frightening and compelling read. This book posits very real scenarios if we continue in our consumptive ways without any recourse. It also could be very real if the environmental movement does not change from it's fatalistic and non-scientific ways, from the likes of Kunstler, Sir Martin Rees, Jared Diamond, yes Al Gore, Paul Ehrlich, and James Lovelock. What Kunstler and these other writers are creating are survivalism, and conservatism, not an embrace of environmental policies. We need a more pragmatic approach that will potentially solve the current crisis suggested by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger in "Breakthrough: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility."
clyde m wrote this review Sunday, March 16 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Kunstler does not present any viable solution and seems to mock those that are trying. I don't buy it anymore.”
“Peak oil is upon us, we need to spend less time following Brittney and more time on our natural resource emergency.”
sfbridgerunner wrote this review Sunday, November 18 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
