![]() Meanwhile, a community in Union Grove, a town in upstate New York, grinds out its existence without electricity and running water. A phantom government exists, but nobody can recall the last election. Jihadists have bombed the United States three times, and a paralyzing pandemic with a name that would make Lou Dobbs proud - the Mexican flu - has killed millions. ![]() Television, the Internet, anything that poses as the press, has been shut down. Coffee, wheat, black pepper and cinnamon - all gone. Global trade has devolved into wars to reclaim resources. The Earth's resources have been plundered, and the most-prized commodity - oil - is but a vague memory. It seemed fitting, if only because there are no turnpikes in Kunstler's novel, no cars and certainly no gas. ![]() ![]() I confess I started reading "World Made by Hand," James Howard Kunstler's new dystopian novel, while waiting for gas in a long line off the New Jersey Turnpike. ![]()
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