What will the future bring. A thought experiment beginning 6000 years ago and concluding 6000 years from now. Based on the Book by Peter Zeihan, The End of the World Is Just the Beginning.
He demonstrates that our decades long period of hyper globalization is all but over. Our species has sprinted over the last thousands of years from a time where, without brute daily consumption, the baby dies! There was no bandwidth for regeneration. This has carried us forward until today. No judgment. So much of what we have accomplished demonstrates the near limitless potential of our species. But obviously, perpetual consumption without regeneration is not something that can last.
And in some ways, hyper globalization, may naturally lead to hyper— Localism!
Especially around fundamentals of daily thriving, like food, water, shelter, energy, community. America has virtually every requirement for perpetual self-sufficiency, again based on your analysis.
That said, ug, in the near term, we are certainly facing at best a worldwide depression, as the pillars of hyper globalization begin to more clearly fail. We may lose millions upon millions to famine. China decivilizes. The emotional response to this will be overwhelming, but also temporary.
Then, given the regeneration of the United States into a juggernaut of anti-fragility — and hopefully also coupled with a sense of regeneration of the entire species into more giving and regeneratively minded decentralized groups - we get a harmony between the broader thriving North Americans and thousands of local bio regions and so on. A reestablishment of balance in everything we do. Including a balance between individual prosperity and security and that of the community. Less affected by inflation, centralized currency, government etc by the nature of being small and local.
Nothing is assured but it’s not impossible. We could one day achieve this, through collective manifestation. Not saying there won’t be suffering, loss, death, murder. Just won’t be mass murder.
Our reality is malleable, no matter how you look at it.
So let us band together, combined the wisdom of our grandmothers with our collective brain power and determine the state of our species after we emerge from this epic epoch portal.