Life After Cars

—By Cameron Scott

| Wed Apr. 4, 2007 5:03 PM PDT

Unlike the rest of the chorus chanting that Americans should drive less, James Howard Kunstler—the author of The Geography of Nowhere and The Long Emergency, an exploration of what life will be like after oil ceases to be plentiful and cheap—actually provides specifics.

Learn what they are on our environmental blog, The Blue Marble.

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