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Hey, if you like reading dire predictions about the near future, you've probably already encountered the antisuburbanist James Howard Kunstler. His new book, The Long Emergency, is about what will happen after global oil production peaks, sometime in the next few years. In short, "instability, turbulence, and hardship," with national bankruptcy, the rise of agriculture, total failure of the interstates, the decline (at last!) of the suburbs, depopulation in the southwest, Pentecostal violence in the southeast, and, in the end, singing in the dark. At least that's what I gleaned from the excerpt in Rolling Stone.