CSR Event

Guest Speaker: James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency

James Howard Kunstler
Urban Planning Expert │ Social Critic │ Author │ Journalist

"The future will require us to build better places, or the future will belong to other people in other societies."
-James Howard Kunstler

The well-known author of The Geography of Nowhere (Simon & Schuster, 1993) and Home from Nowhere (Simon & Schuster, 1996), James Howard Kunstler, has long been recognized as a fierce critic of suburban sprawl and the high costs associated with an automobile-centric culture. Now training his eye on the permanent global oil crisis, Kunstler's book, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century (2005), expands on his past critiques of suburbia by exploring the sweeping economic, political and social changes that will result from the end of access to cheap fossil fuels and the impact this will have on the way we live, work, farm and build. In March 2008, the Atlantic Monthly Press published Kunslter's tenth novel, World Made By Hand, a story set in America's post-oil future.

"Kunstler, like George Orwell, understands that being honest about the past and present is the only way to prepare ourselves for an uncertain future."
-David Ehrenfeld (Professor of Biology, Rutgers University), American Scientist

"A wonderfully entertaining useful and provocative account of the ravaging of the American environment by the auto, suburban developers, purblind zoning and corporate pirates." -Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe