Here's the teaser:
"He [James Howard Kunstler] calls the new Depression ' The Long Emergency.' It is, he says, the logical end result of a society that has squadered all of its oil, torn down its factories and outsourced jobs, leveled family farms as well as 'Main Street' shopping areas and 'trained its populatin to become overfed diabetic TV zombie 'consumers' of other peoples' productivity, paid for by 'money' they haven't earned.'"
Check out Kunstler's blog, Clusterfuck Nation at:
http://www.kunstler.com/index.html.