James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler is an American writer, social critic, public speaker, and blogger. He is best known for his books ''The Geography of Nowhere'' (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development, ''The Long Emergency'' (2005), and ''Too Much Magic'' (2012). In ''The Long Emergency'' he imagines peak oil and oil depletion resulting in the end of industrialized society, forcing Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities. In ''World Made by Hand'' he branches into a speculative fiction depiction of this future world. Provided by Wikipedia