The end of suburban life is coming, writer says

Best-selling author James Kunstler speaks at UGa

Americans had better get used to the idea that, one day, they’ll live more like their great, great-grandparents than their parents.

A powerful combination of depleted oil fields, climate change, population growth and financial crisis soon will conspire to change the American lifestyle drastically, according to best-selling writer James Howard Kunstler.


And any hope offered by the recent dip in oil and gas prices is false hope, Kunstler, author of “The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes,” said in a lecture Tuesday in the University of Georgia Chapel.

“Because the price of oil has gone down in recent weeks, the American public is once again going to get the false idea that we don’t have a problem,” he said. “We do have a problem, and it’s a big problem.”

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