Food insecurity implies potential for violence, and urban food deserts are practically unprecedented. One may call it a unique American achievement in urban planning.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0276146715612550
This promises interesting times when just-in-time delivery inevitably arrives a day late and a dollar short.
Just kidding, the USD is the first forever currency of the USG, the first forever empire. What's the worst that could happen?
Cities such as Baltimore and Detroit have already seen the process play out. It makes for interesting reading, from a safe distance.
Like a slow-motion forest fire, as the conflagration spreads outwards, new growth sprouts defiantly from the charred center. I wouldn't call it a natural process, but it resembles one.
Do the inner cities of other countries lie in ruins for decades, or is that an American thing?