James Howard Kunstler has strong feelings about energy overuse and brings his thinking to its logical extreme to make a point about society.
He is best known for his books The Geography of Nowhere, a history of American suburbia and urban development, and the more recent The Long Emergency , where he argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities.
He has written science fiction related to suburbia, urban development, and the challenges of what he calls “the global oil predicament.” His latest fiction book, The Witch of Hebron, is based on his groundbreaking work in The Long Emergency.