Is globalization's day in the sun over?

…Any discussion of “post-globalization” worth its salt must include a dash of peak oil and hyper-complexity talk. James Kunstler, author of “The Long Emergency” and “The Geography of Nowhere,” envisions a not-too-distant future when natural resources are scarce and transporting cheap goods over long distances will become impractical, if not impossible.

Under such a scenario, “post-globalization” doesn’t represent some esoteric changes in banking regulations; it’s a real change in the way we live, eat, and consume energy.

“The world has allowed itself to be bamboozled by putative economic gurus such as Tom Friedman,” Mr. Kunstler told the Post-Gazette, “whose very conspicuous pronouncements in The New York Times and in his various books the past decade misled the public into thinking that transient international trade relations were a permanent feature of the human condition.

“In fact, they were features of the final blow-out of cheap energy and easy credit, and now different conditions are upon us.”

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette