Quote Originally Posted by Grog View Post
If you really want to scare yourself (although it will be less scary now that you live in the PNW, to a point), go read
The Long Emergency
by James Howard Kunstler.

He's bringing together global politics, urban studies, climatology, and oil depletion theories in a very skilful way. Frankly it's quite pessimistic but it ends on a positive note. I reread bits of it last night and I find that it's a good mental exercise to see things differently once in a while. It's easy to take our environment for granted...
That's funny. I just got his other book (the novel: A World Made by Hand) delivered yesterday. I've read a lot of other things on that same topic, but I've not read his book in particular. I'll have to see if the library has a copy. I can guess what the positive note at the end is...does he see that happening in our lifetime, or do we just get to experience the frightening part?