The Oil Drum

While imaginings of a future world are useful, Kunstler's dark jeremiad is too pessimistic to help the cause of changing minds. People are repulsed at his insistence that we shall all be forced back into a world where central governments do not function at all, skyscrapers are abandoned, people flee cities and suburbs become derelict wastelands. Kunstler is a misanthropic curmudgeon whose bile has colored everything he writes. His education extends to an Arts degree in Drama, and boy, does he know how to be melodramatic! I've communicated privately with him about various issues, but stopped when he had a knee-jerk negative reaction to any possibility that technology would survive "the change" and that humanity would retain some post-medieval advantages. In many circles he is simply a laughing stock. Even his wife left him.

If an accurately imagined future is sought, the book "When Technology fails" (reviewed here by Richard Heinberg recently) is the book you want: