The Long Emergency: The Coming Global Oil Crisis and Climate Change
Speaker:
James Howard Kunstler
10 Oct 2007
7:00 PM
Sun Room, Memorial Union
James Howard Kunstler is an author and social critic perhaps best known for The Geography of Nowhere, a history of suburbia and urban development in the United States. He also authored The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition. His most recent book, The Long Emergency, tackles the global oil crisis. Kunstler has worked as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers and as a staff writer for Rolling Stone. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday magazine and op-ed page, where he has written on environmental and economic issues.
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This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.