Beauty and Catastrophe: The Human Imprint on Our Landscape

James Howard Kunstler is best known for his books (1994), a history of American Suburbia and urban development, (2005), and (2012). In he imagines peak oil and oil depletion resulting at the end of industrialized society, forcing Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities. He branches into a speculative fiction depiction of this future world in his book