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New Pretty flat
but, don't forget, that as things flatten some things will get cheaper here. However, life will become a lot more concentrated on local concerns, as travel will become more expensive.

For example, no matter how flat it gets, food will be cheaper here than most other parts of the world for a very long time to come. Of course, in the transition, there will be winners and losers... and the losers could make life very uncomfortable for a while, because most of the losers will be the people with the paper wealth.
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New Which "here" is that?
California almost literally manufactures food. No gas = no food.

It would not be hard to make food more expensive here than it is in most of the rest of the world.

Cheers,
Ben
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New Hm, good point
OTOH, if gas goes away, so do our big sprawling cities, which can help a lot of the petroleum requirement for food go away too.

Of course, an unstated given in that is that I won't be eating California strawberries anymore. Then again, Prince Edward County strawberries are pretty damn good, if only available for a couple of months a year. Eating will become much more seansonal in nature, and people will eat from close by instead of across the continent. This is not necessarily a bad thing.


The "here" that I meant was North America. Given equivalent techs, food here will be cheaper than in Europe, Africa, and Asia thanks to our low populations and comparatively unspoiled land.

Of course, here in Canada, we've got it in spades, and global warming will probably improve that situation for us (though of course that's far from certain).
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