FEATURED REVIEW:

This was the second book relating to peak oil that I had the pleasure of reading.  By and large, I would classify this text as a classic.  Kunstler's begins his treatment of this topic by viewing the current socioeconomic climate as filled by a populace blinded by certain assumptions that make the coming (or present) oil crisis all the more severe.  He then goes on to treat the rise of our modern industrial civilization and it root in cheap energy (oil) and how the geopolitical nature of oil has shaped international trade and events.... more