Too Much Magic

Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation is a 2012 nonfiction book by American author and social critic James Howard Kunstler. A sequel to his earlier work The Long Emergency (2005), the book expands on Kunstler’s warnings about the unsustainable nature of modern industrial civilization. In Too Much Magic, Kunstler argues that Americans have placed undue faith in technological solutions and “magical thinking” as substitutes for dealing with hard political, economic, and environmental realities, particularly in the face of peak oil, climate change, and systemic economic decline.