Welcome to issues large swathes of the world have been obliged to deal with all along. We’ll live. > One possibility is that Americans adopt a sustainable, asc

Welcome to issues large swathes of the world have been obliged to deal with all along. We’ll live. > One possibility is that Americans adopt a sustainable, ascetic, and homespun lifestyle that reduces our dependency on goods that activate the global supply chain. If you can seriously envision such a world, I envy your gift of imagination. > The best solution to the Everything Shortage is to have a policy to make more of just about everything. Well, is it? The pandemic will pass but the various environmental crises created by the “more of everything” policy probably will oblige reduced consumption in some form.