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by balt_s 2475 days ago
> You're thinking in short, next twenty years or so

I suspect the drawdown of easily-accessible, dense, cheap fossil fuels will spell the end of global integration; consider a very low-energy future where most communication takes place via radio and travel for 99% takes place at a fraction of today's rate. We would expect regional differences to increase as groups adapt to local areas, ideally while carrying out extensive sharing of e.g. practices and techniques.

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Assuming that there is no scientific progress on moving off of these... which there already is.