With the cost of oil skyrocketing-and with it the price of food-Kunstler's extraordinary book, full of love and loss, violence and power, sex and drugs, depression and desperation, but also plenty of hope, is more relevant than ever. Their challenges play out in a dazzling, fully realized world of abandoned highways and empty houses, horses working the fields and rivers, no longer polluted, and replenished with fish. There may be a president, and he may be in Minneapolis now, but people aren't sure. Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food is grown locally at great expense of time and energy, and the outside world is largely unknown. For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is nothing like they thought it would be. In World Made by Hand, an astonishing work of speculative fiction, Kunstler brings to life what America might be, a few decades hence, after these catastrophes converge.
It'll take a hundred years to sort things out and get it all going again. In his latest work, 'World Made By Hand,' Kunstler returns to fiction. 'They can't keep order there, and you can't have business without order. In World Made by Hand, he offers a stark glimpse of that future in a work of speculative fiction that stands as an impassioned and invigorating tale whose.
In The Long Emergency celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production, combined with climate change, had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler 6,907 ratings, 3.68 average rating, 1,038 reviews Open Preview World Made by Hand Quotes Showing 1-4 of 4 New York City is finished,' he said.
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