“The Long Emergency is going to be a tremendous trauma for the human race. It is likely to entail political turbulence every bit as extreme as the economic conditions that prompt it.”

—  James Howard Kunstler, book The Long Emergency

Source: The Long Emergency (2005), Chapter 1, p. 20.

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