World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler

He lives in Greenwich, a town in Washington County, New York. While spending summers at a boys' camp in New Hampshire, he became acquainted with a small town ethos that would later permeate many of his works. Kunstler spent most of his childhood with his mother and stepfather, a publicist for Broadway shows. His biological father was a middleman in the diamond trade. His family then moved to the suburbs on Long Island.

Kunstler was born in New York City to Jewish parents, who divorced when he was eight.

In World Made by Hand he branches into a speculative fiction depiction of this future world. In The Long Emergency he imagines peak oil and oil depletion resulting in the end of industrialized society, forcing Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities. He is best known for his books The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development, The Long Emergency (2005), and Too Much Magic (2012). With the cost of oil skyrocketingand with it the price of foodKunstler's extraordinary book, full of love and loss, violence and power, sex and drugs, depression and desperation, but also plenty of hope, is more relevant than ever.James Howard Kunstler (born October 19, 1948) is an American author, social critic, public speaker, and blogger. Their challenges play out in a dazzling, fully realized world of abandoned highways and empty houses, horses working the fields and rivers, no longer polluted, and replenished with fish. There may be a president, and he may be in Minneapolis now, but people aren't sure. Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food is grown locally at great expense of time and energy, and the outside world is largely unknown. For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is nothing like they thought it would be. In World Made by Hand, an astonishing work of speculative fiction, Kunstler brings to life what America might be, a few decades hence, after these catastrophes converge. In The Long Emergency celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production, combined with climate change, had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business.

World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler