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Nice take.

But plz finish every doomsday article with at least one proposal how to fix this mess/solution/that believers of Chicago sekt of economics produced.

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

Buckminster Fuller

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The solutions are well known. We can use shorter more local supply chains for some items, and build multiple redundancy on every step of unavoidably long ones. There’s nothing magical in that. All it takes is recognising the problem exists and having the political will to make supply chains less efficient (and less profitable) but more resilient to individual shocks.

Also, as the population increases and climate changes, we can expect larger and more frequent shocks. We can only address those as a civilisation.

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