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On this episode of The Reality Report, Jason Bradford talks to James Howard Kunstler, long-time critic of suburbia, and author of The Long Emergency and more recently, World Made by Hand. In the form of a novel set in the future in upstate New York, World Made by Hand explores the potential consequences of the converging crisis of financial meltdown, resource wars, peak oil and climate change.

James Howard Kunstler reads from World Made By Hand, his new novel based on the post-oil future. Published by The Atlantic Monthly Press, World Made By Hand is set in upstate New York in the not distant future. It is a fictional account of the ideas based in Kunstler's nonfiction book, The Long Emergency. With transcript.