Kunstler is massively racist in this book. He very explicitly states that his surviving society of surviving good people are all white. He also makes it very clear that people of color survive ONLY as savages. People of color are always making violence on good white people. The women are all subservient to the man in their life. They are Stepford Wives, who cook and clean and stay home. Kunstler compares his bands of thugs (who are Black or Latino) to Native Americans attacking peaceful white settlers on more than one occasion. Kunstler started out as a scold who got his panties in a bunch over the ugliness of modernity. He was nothing but a scold wagging his finger at people whose choices he disliked. The Peak Oil/Cheap Oil environmentally unsustainability part came later. At least this is how remember him. I met the man one time and he told me how disappointed he was that Native People, who could have offered an alternative vision for white society (No he didn't say "white society") had instead chosen to trade in their heritage for trailers, alcohol, and video games. Fuck Kunstler.
John Thornton