Point of Contact: James Howard Kunstler

Our Q&A with James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency and World Made By Hand.

When you published The Long Emergency three years ago, oil was trading at about $50 a barrel, and naysayers wrote off your predictions of peak oil doom as cranky hysteria. What about now?

I would answer the naysayers by saying, “How do you like The Long Emergency so far


What kind of place will the Dallas area be to live in the Long Emergency?

As you probably know from reading TLE, I think the Sun Belt generally is in for tough times. We’re going to rediscover why the territory between Charleston and the Pecos was an agricultural backwater before 1945, with few cities of any size. You can’t overestimate the importance of cheap air conditioning