So many of these problems are not insurmountable. Most are also self-created. You wouldn’t need so many cargo ships plying the world’s oceans, for instance, if

So many of these problems are not insurmountable. Most are also self-created. You wouldn’t need so many cargo ships plying the world’s oceans, for instance, if you simply produced more locally and regionally. Yet, we’ve somehow decided that complicated supply chains that simply add to consumption bloat are more important. Would we really be in that much pain if our local store stocked 10 types of tees instead of 200?