Paul, I have read it. World Built by Hand is on loan from the library and in the mail. I also read The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, just finished it and found it to be very similar but not as down.
I hold that if you are not a actualist you are going to miss something, so pay attention and don't let yourself be carried off by WalMart or Climate Change. Have you seen Avatar?
Who really knows how good or bad thing to come may be. Are we truly apprised of the resources out of sight? I hear both sides running away with fact, all I really know is today and somedays it isn't bright, an ever present conflict. The days are getting longer, that is a good thing.
I run an off grid system and it is not all peaches and cream. Kunstler put it right on that one. What will happen when we see the price of fuel to run our transportation system go only a little above where it is now? How long can we run with artificially priced fuel. Tarsands will run the cost of fuel out of reach for the common person.
Politics are a joke, both sides, We the People are run over. And it is our fault.
I bought 2 guns this fall and we almost had Ruffed Grouse for supper, a no go, the snow was crusty and loud. I wouldn't spend money on a hybrid, get a VW diesel. And the Green approach is a lure. Go after sensible solutions on your own, you know what is right. I can't afford gold.
Tim
