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KunstlerCast 297 — Yakking With David Collum of Cornell U as Markets Reach New All-time Highs
Clusterfuck Nation Now appearing Mondays and Fridays Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page! David Collum, an old friend of this podcast, is the Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University, but he may be better known these days as a wicked funny commentator on the economy and financial markets. He writes more »
KunstlerCast 296 — The College Loan Crisis with Richard Fossey
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Richard Fossey is the author of Student Loan Catastrophe: Postcards from the Rubble, published in September, 2017. He’s the Paul Burdin Endowed Professor of Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He received his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law and his doctorate more »
KunstlerCast 295 — Chatting with Neil Howe: How Is “The Fourth Turning” Turning Out?
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page! Neil Howe is a renowned author and speaker on economic, demographic, and social change in America. He is the nation’s leading authority on social generations—who they are, what motivates them, and how they will shape America’s future. Howe is the originator of the term “Millennial Generation” and more »
KunstlerCast 294 — “There’s No App for That” — Richard Heinberg
Clusterfuck Nation Now appearing Mondays and Fridays Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page! Richard Heinberg published his excellent and influential book, The Party’s Over, the same year as The Long Emergency and we met many times since then on the conference circuit. Richard is Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. He’s the more »
KunstlerCast 293 — Hate Is the New Sex, featuring John Michael Greer
Clusterfuck Nation Now appearing Mondays and Fridays Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page! John Michael Greer is a widely read author and blogger whose work focuses on the overlaps between ecology, spirituality, and the future of industrial society. He published the Archdruid Report blog for many years, focusing on many themes that overlapped more »
KunstlerCast 292 — Conversation With Author and Ecologist David Orr… Plus Extra Bonus Podcast! JHK and the S-Town Podcast
David W. Orr is Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics and senior adviser to the president of Oberlin College. He is a founding editor of the journal Solutions, and serves as the executive director of the Oberlin Project, a collaborative effort of the city of Oberlin, Oberlin College, and private and more »
KunstlerCast 291 — Chatting with Market Analyst Tony Greer
Our pal and frequent guest, Dave Collum, suggested we have a chat with his pal Tony Greer, an independent global market analyst with 25 years of trading experience in and around Wall Street. He graduated from Cornell University in 1990 and spent the first ten years of his career trading currencies, commodities, and precious metals more »
KunstlerCast 290 – Rocky Rawlins and the Survivor Library
I’ll be chatting with Rocky Rawlins who is the man behind The SurvivorLibrary.com, a phenomenal website that contains scans in pdf-file form of hundreds of books on basic technology and the skills for applying them, mostly dating from the late 19th and early 20th century. It’s hard to overstate the scope of this vast trove more »
KunstlerCast 289 — David Collum, Fun with Financial Markets
Today I’m yakking with return guest David Collum, the Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University, who has become a popular presence on the internet commenting on the financial system and the related predicaments of our time. He’s also been involved in the campus culture wars and is not too shy more »
KunstlerCast 288 — Chatting with Urbanist and Transit Expert Taras Grescoe
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page! This episode’s featured interview is with transportation expert and urbanist Taras Grescoe, author of Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile. Taras writes: “In the 20th century, our greatest cities were almost ruined by the automobile. Only a global revolution in transportation can bring them back more »
KunstlerCast 287 — Piero San Giorgio and his New Book: “Women on the Verge of a Societal Breakdown”
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page! It’s a pleasure to welcome back Piero San Giorgio who came on the podcast some time ago to talk about his previous excellent book, Survive the Economic Collapse, a Practical Guide. I caught up with Piero on Skype at his home in Switzerland to talk about his new book, Women on more »
KunstlerCast 286 — Chatting with Jasun Horsley of the Liminalist Podcast — Double Edition
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page! It’s a pleasure to welcome back Jasun Horsley, who presides over the blog Auticulture and The Liminalist podcast. Jasun is a UK ex-pat now living in rural British Columbia, Canada. He describes himself as a “high-functioning Aspergian” and his work often takes readers and listeners to the further more »
KunstlerCast 285 — Byron King of Rickard’s Gold Investor
Today I’m chewing the gristle of finance with Byron King. Byron is a geologist who currently writes a newsletter, in association with economist Jim Rickards, entitled Rickards Gold Speculator with Byron King. It’s published by Agora Financial, of Baltimore, www.agorafinancial.com. Over the course if his career, Byron worked in the oil industry, and has more »
Chatting With Kate Wagner of McMansion Hell dot Com
Today I’m yakking with Kate Wagner, the antic voice behind the marvelous website Welcome to MacMansion Hell, a humorous and opinionated blog that aims to educate the general public about architecture, design, and urbanism by making examples of America’s most despised architectural style. She is currently a master’s student in Acoustics as part of a more »
KunstlerCast 283 — Catching Up With Forecaster David Collum
I’m talking with David Collum of Cornell University. Dave is Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Chair of Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. He’s better known in the blogosphere as a witty and dauntless forecaster of matters finance and political, and it’s always good to check in with him during times more »
KunstlerCast 282 — Shrinking the Technosphere with Dmitry Orlov
Dmitry Orlov is back to talk about his new book, “Shrinking the Technosphere: Getting a Grip on the Technologies that Limit Our Self-sufficiency and Freedom.” It can be ordered at his website: cluborlov.com. Dmitry is the author previously of “Reinventing Collapse,” “Communities That Abide.” “The Five Stages of Collapse,” and several books of essays. more »
KunstlerCast 281– Chatting with Steve St. Angelo about Oil and Finance
Independent researcher Steve St. Angelo started to invest in precious metals in 2002. Later on in 2008, he began researching areas of the gold and silver market that, curiously, the majority of the precious metal analyst community have left unexplored. These areas include how energy and the falling EROI – Energy Returned On Invested – more »
KunstlerCast 280 — “150 Strong” with Dmitry Orlov
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page! Dmitry Orlov, the author of Reinventing Collapse and many other books, has become a publisher lately and, in his capacity as publisher and publicist, Dmitry and I will be chatting about the new book he just brought out, 150 Strong; A Pathway to a Different Future by more »
KunstlerCast 279 — Yaking with Kirk Bostrom about Disorder in Finance and Markets
Kirk Bostrom is the Managing Partner and Chief Portfolio Manager of Strategic Preservation Partners LP, located in Silicon Valley. Kirk began his career as a teenage “runner” on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade and has spent over 30 years in the securities investment realm. He was named repeatedly as one of more »
KunstlerCast 278 — Alice Friedemann — When the Trucks Stop Running
Alice J. Friedemann is the author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the future of transportation.” She is also the creator of the excellent website: http://energyskeptic.com/. Ms. Friedemann is perhaps best known for “Peak Soil,” edited by David Pimentel at Cornell, Tad Patzek at U.C. Berkeley, and Walter Youngquist (author of “Geodestinies”). She more »
KunstlerCast 277 — A Chat with Steve Ludlum of Economic-Undertow.com
Steve Ludlum is a native mid-westerner who has spent most of his 65 years on the East Coast. Steve is a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer who has also been at various times an amateur naturalist, artist, designer and writer. He currently studies economic issues, resource and energy depletion, monetary policy and the cause-and-effect relationship with more »
KunstlerCast 276 — That Conversation About Race We Were Supposed to Have
“Christopher Cornelius” is the nom de guerre of a black American international humanitarian aid worker who has put years of service in some of the world’s most dangerous places: Pakistan, Afghanistan, West Africa, Kenya, the Balkans, Cambodia, Sudan, and others. He is uncomfortable with developments in racial politics back home and has an original more »
KunstlerCast 275 — Art Berman Clarifies Whatever Happened to Peak Oil
Arthur E. Berman is a petroleum geologist with 37 years of oil and gas industry experience. He is an expert on U.S. shale plays and is currently consulting for several E&P companies and capital groups in the energy sector. Berman has published more than 100 articles on oil and gas plays and trends. He more »
KunstlerCast 274 — Chatting With Bill Kauffman of The Front Porch Republic
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page! Bill Kauffman is a founder and contributor to the Front Porch Republic website. He’s also the author of Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette; Ain’t My America; and the recent collection of essays, Poetry night at the Ballpark. He also wrote the screenplay for the 2013 motion picture Copperhead, more »
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Living in The Long Emergency
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Publication March 2020
Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward
Forget the speculation of pundits and media personalities. For anyone asking “Now what?” the answer is out there. You just have to know where to look.
In his 2005 book, The Long Emergency, James Howard Kunstler described the global predicaments that would pitch the USA into political and economic turmoil in the 21st century—the end of affordable oil, climate irregularities, and flagging economic growth, to name a few. Now, he returns with a book that takes an up-close-and-personal approach to how real people are living now—surviving The Long Emergency as it happens.
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Too Much Magic
Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
The nationally best-selling author of "The Long Emergency" expands on his alarming argument that our oil-addicted, technology-dependent society is on the brink of collapse—that the long emergency has already begun. Published by the Atlantic Monthly Press.
Read JHK's entertaining chapter "The Zombies of Gund Hall Go Forth to Eat America's Brains" In the new book: Landscape Urbanism and Its Discontents