The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age

The author of Dark Age America shares a harrowing vision of the future and what you can do to take action and make change.

Americans are expressing deep concern about US dependence on petroleum, rising energy prices and the threat of climate change. Unlike the energy crisis of the 1970s, however, there is a lurking fear that, now, the times are different, and the crisis may not easily be resolved.

The Long Descent examines the basis of such fear through three core themes:

• Industrial so...