![]() A powerful tale of love, loss, violence, and desperation, World Made by Hand is also lyrical and tender, a surprising story of a new America struggling to be born-a story more relevant now than ever. This is the story of Robert Earle and his fellow townspeople and what happens to them one summer in a country that has changed profoundly. ![]() The townspeople's challenges play out in a dazzling, fully realized world of abandoned highways and empty houses, horses working the fields and rivers, no longer polluted, and replenished with fish. There may be a president, and he may be in Minneapolis now, but people aren't sure. The Albany Times Union reviewed World Made by Hand, opening with, 'James Howard Kunstler is fiddling his way to the apocalypse, one jig at a. In his predictions for 2007, Kunstler admitted his mistake, ascribing the Dows climb to 'inertia combined with sheer luck'. Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food is grown locally at great expense of time and energy, and the outside world is largely unknown. The Dow in fact reached a new peak of approximately 12,500 by the end of 2006. ![]() In Union Grove, a little town in upstate New York, the future is nothing like people thought it would be. In World Made by Hand, an astonishing work of speculative fiction, Kunstler brings to life what America might be, a few decades hence, after these catastrophes converge. In The Long Emergency, celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production combined with climate change had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. ![]()
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