"The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First C

James Howard Kunstler, one of the most acute and engaging urban thinkers today, describes the impending end of cheap oil, its effects on the American life we have built with cheap commercial aviation, and our reliance on complex transportation systems to maintain our electrical grid and food supply. When this finite energy supply dwindles, Kunstler contends that our lives will, out of necessity, become local, as the global economy becomes unsustainable and we enter a period of economic and social turbulence. When: Monday, June 6; check-in: 5:30 PM, program: 6:00 PM
What: Meet the Author Program. “The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century.” Cosponsored by San Francisco Planning and Urban Research and Stacey's Independent Bookstore.
Who: James Howard Kunstler, Author, The Long Emergency, The Geography of Nowhere, Home from Nowhere, and The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition; former Editor, Rolling Stone.
Where: World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter St., 2nd Floor Conference Room, San Francisco
Admission Costs: Council and SPUR Members: Free; Nonmembers: $15, Students: $5
Public Info: (415) 293-4600, http://www.itsyourworld.org