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We found 10 Reddit comments about The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Cent. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.

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u/Nostromo1905 · 14 pointsr/worldnews

food will be more expensive, insurance will cost more, people fleeing from worse off places will strain governments

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u/middkidd · 3 pointsr/energy

Yes, You are completely on the money. The problem that we face as a world today is that we are in this 15-20 year period but we are pretending like we are not facing a shortage in the future.

Therefore, if we don't pull it together now -- during this 15-20 year period (please enjoy the read), it will seem like a 1-2 year period.

See China for best practices.

u/Helps_Blind_Children · 3 pointsr/TheMotte

plan for political unrest and social upheaval.

move to a resilient community. shorten supply lines. strengthen social ties with people who have consequential knowledge relevant to off-grid survival.

the less dependent you are on the work of random others, the less likely any kind of disruption to the current order will affect you directly in ways you can't adjust for.

you should still stockpile food and weapons, but a crate of 5.56 and a basement full of MREs isn't a sustainable solution to anything.

https://www.amazon.com/Long-Emergency-Converging-Catastrophes-Twenty-First/dp/0802142494

u/daveinacave · 1 pointr/EmergencyManagement

A great book on situational awareness called Left of Bang

Good book on Mitigation, coming from a community-centric perspective. A little unconventional but I think brilliant. Same goes for The Long Emergency by a guy named James Kunstler. He's got a great blog too- talks about Peak Oil a lot.

As far as training goes, you should be looking into FEMA online courses, especially the Professional Development Series (PDS)- which is all online.

u/RKBA · 1 pointr/guns

>"Haven't bought land yet. Texas, most likely. Still undecided though."


There is another book (albeit very repetitive and boring) called The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by the blogger James Howard Kunstler that puts the emphasis on the oil shortage rather than violence who breaks the country down into regions and discusses the pros and cons of each. One of his contentions is that the best type of place to live would be a small town surrounded by agricultural farmland with an ample water supply (or at least enough rainfall to grow crops without irrigation) and with a comfortably long growing season. Kunstler claims that the New England or Appalachia area would be the best, but of course he is an Easterner. I would have thought you would have picked Northern Idaho where you would have a much greater percentage of allies than most other places, although according to Kunstler the growing season in Northern Idaho is too short to sustain life in the long term. There is also Vermont and New Hampshire where the Free State Project is centered, but it's verrrrrrry cold in the winter I'm told. Speaking of cold, I think my pick by a country mile would be Alaska if it weren't for the harsh winters. If global warming would hurry up and arrive I would head for Alaska (despite Palin!).



P.S.

Are you aware that Texas is one of only six states that have banned open carry? I was astounded when I learned of this yesterday morning on Michael Badnarick's radio program Lighting the Fires of Liberty. It was pointed out by one of his guest hosts who was knowledgeable in this area. Apparently the popular perception of the Second Amendment in Texas is far different than the reality.

u/arowan · 1 pointr/books
  1. The Long Emergency - by James Howard Kunstler. I'm not really a peak oil alarmist, but I'm interested to hear that point of view.

  2. Moral Man and Immoral Society - by Reinhold Niebuhr. Turns out some Christians are pretty brilliant.

  3. When You are Engulfed in Flames - by David Sedaris. For the lulz.
u/Bartleby1955 · 1 pointr/worldnews

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u/TechNarcissist88 · 1 pointr/conspiracy

The Long Emergency - James Howard Kunstler

Empire Of Illusion - Chris Hedges

The Collapse of Complex Societies - Joseph Tainter

The End Of Growth - Richard Heinberg

u/Broadband2014 · 1 pointr/worldnews

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