“The so-called global economy was not a permanent institution, […] but a set of transient circumstances peculiar to a certain time: the Indian summer of the fossil fuel era.”

— James Howard Kunstler , book The Long Emergency

Source: The Long Emergency (2005), Chapter 1, p. 12.

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