The visionary classic that traces out the twilight of the petroleum age In 2008, as the price of crude oil spiked to record levels, John Michael Greer \'s The Long Descent pushed past the stereotyped debates of the time to offer a harrowing but hopeful vision of the future of Industrial society.
As believers in perpetual progress insisted that something would turn up to replace depleting petroleum reserves, and believers in apocalypse insisted just as fervently.
The visionary classic that traces out the twilight of the petroleum age In 2008, as the price of crude oil spiked to record levels, John Michael Greer \'s The Long Descent pushed past the stereotyped debates of the time to offer a harrowing but hopeful vision of the future of Industrial society