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It's probably more complex than that, with more geopolitical factors involved. Right now, for example, Russia's political economy is limited by access to year-r
by theothermkn 8y ago
It's probably more complex than that, with more geopolitical factors involved. Right now, for example, Russia's political economy is limited by access to year-round deep water ports. China's relationship to Tibet is shaped by the fact that Tibet is basically China's watershed. The bread basket of the United States is just a bunch of fertile soil, blown off the Rockies, that happens to have landed underneath fantastic weather for corn, or wheat, or what have you. When any of those change, we're all going to become much more intimately familiar with the phrase "balance of power."
It's not going to be a case of moving near fresh water. It's going to be a case of getting tolerable living conditions subject to the political apparatuses and distribution networks that develop in response to the power structures that develop as the planet changes underneath the map and the map changes underneath our feet.
Good luck!
- jorblumesea 8y agoThe future is almost certainly going to be indoor farming, climate controlled systems and mass produced lab grown foods (eg: algae, insects), so access to fresh water is going to be a bigger bottleneck than say, nice weather or soil types. Soil can be trucked in from arid or inhospitable regions. Food can be grown in vats. Tolerable power structures are directly related to the resources on hand and pressure on those resources. Fresh water is what future wars will be fought over. Perhaps coastal cities will up their desalination game, who knows.
- zigzaggy 8y ago>Fresh water is what future wars will be fought over. Yes, even more so than today. Being American, I never realized how scarce water actually was until college. I studied inter-regional conflict and learned all about water wars. Related: https://www.worldwater.org/water-conflict/ https://www.worldwater.org/water-conflict/ https://pacinst.org/news/pacific-institute-releases-updates-to-the-water-conflict-chronology/ https://pacinst.org/news/pacific-institute-releases-updates-... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_conflict_in_the_Middle_East_and_North_Africa https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_conflict_in_the_Middle... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_conflict https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_conflict
- antisthenes 8y ago> It's going to be a case of getting tolerable living conditions subject to the political apparatuses and distribution networks that develop in response to the power structures that develop as the planet changes underneath the map and the map changes underneath our feet. I've never seen anyone describe Mad Max so aptly!
- netsharc 8y agoArguably Syria was/is Mad Max. It's a lot uglier than the movie, but the movie had standards of decency to fulfill...
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