Too Much Magic Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation

Praise for "Too Much Magic" "James Howard Kunstler's new much-publicized critique of humanity, Too Much Magic, predicts peak oil, the death of the automobile and the fall of the global economy as we know it."--Huffington Post "In his latest book, Kunstler zeroes in on the central narrative of our time: that we are a highly evolved and technologically sophisticated civilization that will use our ingenuity and engineering expertise to come up with a solution to all the problems we face . . . In Kunstler's view, this is a childish fantasy. . . . Kunstler believes that we are living on borrowed time--our banking and political systems are corrupt, our fossil fuel reserves are dwindling, the seas are rising--but we're still partying like it's 1959." --Jeff Goodell, "Rolling Stone" "Kunstler . . . delivers a cold slap to the fantasists who believe technology will save us. . . . A sharp demand to disenthrall ourselves."--"Kirkus Reviews" "[Kunstler's] views are not a popular or welcomed position in America today. . . But his views about the future appear more and more to be being validated by current events. . . . In his new book, "Too Much Magic," Kunstler updates his prior writings on Peak Oil stating how Americans' long-held, ill-conceived belief that new technologies can always conquer our problems is leading us into a period of great denial and subsequent anger. . . . His new book and his prior works are worth the read. Throughout his work, he offers the surprisingly positive idea an energy limited future might well bring about many of the the things the nation at large claims to crave."--Examiner.com "James Howard Kunstler describes himself as an 'all-purpose writer', and boy can he write . . . [he makes his subjects] interesting and useful to the reader, without talking down to, or boring us. . . . Too Much Magic, like The Long Emergency, is destined to become a Peak Oil classic."--Kathy McMahon, Energy Bulletin "I highly en