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Mentioned in 9 episodes

The Long Emergency

Book • 2005

The Long Emergency delves into the effects of a peak in oil extraction on American society and the world.

Kunstler argues that the economic upheavals caused by peak oil will force societies to become more localized and self-sufficient.

He predicts significant problems in transportation, electrical power generation, and food production due to oil scarcity.

The book also discusses the inadequacy of alternative energy sources and the potential for mass starvation, disease, and civil unrest as communities struggle to adapt to these new challenges.

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Mentioned in 9 episodes

Mentioned by

Sam Harris

George Packer

's latest novel, praising it as extraordinarily good and alarming, and Orwellian in nature.

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#444 — America's Zombie Democracy

Recommended by

Sam Harris

, who encourages people to read it, whether or not they discuss it in the episode.

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#444 - America’s Zombie Democracy

Recommended by

David Frum

as a haunting portrait of a world in decline.

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MAGA Has Repulsed Young Women

Mentioned by

Yascha Mounk

as a novel by

George Packer

that is beautiful, moving, insightful, infuriating, and lovely.

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George Packer on Liberal Values in Authoritarian Times

Mentioned by

Kate Shaw

as a new novel featured in a recent column by Michelle Goldberg.

The Legal Battles Over Trump’s War on Blue Cities

Mentioned by

Marshall Kosloff

George Packer

's new work of fiction about an empire collapsing.

582 | George Packer: The Emergency - The Post-Literate Age and the Unwinding of American Liberalism

Mentionné pour son expression « clusterfuck », utilisée pour décrire une situation désespérée.

Effondrement de la civilisation ? Pablo Servigne

Mentioned by Charles Hugh Smith as a book that provides insights into the challenges of the modern world and the concept of a "waste is growth landfill economy."

KunstlerCast 417 — Charles Hugh Smith, Progress and Anti-progress

Recommended by a listener of the podcast as essential reading for understanding the current economic and social climate.

Matt Bracken #1078

Mentioned by

Jen White

as a novel by

George Packer

that will be released in November.

The Atlantic Celebrates America’s 250th Birthday

Mentioned as George Packer's turn to fiction, a visionary novel that goes to the nerve center of what it means to live in a time of fracture and upheaval.