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Ever-larger Cities
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Most observers tend to extrapolate current and assume that what we see now will continue moving in the same direction — ever-larger cities, etc. I don t see it that way. The global energy predicament now gathering around us will synergize with climate change to produce a very different outcome. I think we'll eventually see a reversal of the 200-year-long cycle of people from farms and small towns to big cities. Food production is going to be a big problem when oil-and-gas-based agriculture is no longer possible, and we will have to reestablish a more relationship between urban places and a more productive agricultural hinterland. Our mega-cities will contract . The fortunate ones will densify around their old cores and waterfronts — though sea level rise may affect many cities.
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