Bridge collapse. Society collapse.

Given the awful bridge collapse in Minnesota it is time to relink The Long Emergency by James Kunstler published by Rolling Stone in 2005 - (and also a book by the same name). It starts out with this now quaint sentence: A few weeks ago, the price of oil ratcheted above fifty-five dollars a barrel, which is about twenty dollars a barrel more than a year ago.
Imagine that. In march 2005 oil shocked us at $55 a barrel.

Why this article again today? The metaphor is becoming the reality. Our far flung overdeveloped utterly oil dependant lives and landscapes are in real, deep, trouble. Crumbling infrastructure and insanely volatile markets are merely the canaries in the coal mine.

Read The Long Emergency.