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>>16708726
It's more about the systems around water. Now that humanity has managed to reach a point where industrialization allows inland areas to be just as livable as the seafronts we have more people then ever living in places which are by all accounts unsustainable for the majority of humans. I live in the rockies along with a couple other million people and if the economic systems in place, that allows food from farms in warmer climates to be shipped to me and water from a river a hundred miles away to be piped to my house, were to collapse then the area I'm in would probably no longer be livable. Thats not very likely to happen, but I do see the thoughts around storing water and food long term. It happened in flint Michigan without an apocalypse so it's not impossible. Speaking of Flint however, I think the more likely scenario we will see in relation to water is some sort of large-scale pollution of water sources worldwide rendering a water crisis in which access to clean fresh water is capitalized and becomes a big commodity in the markets and in daily life. I think the cost of consumer goods will continue to lower, but the cost of food and water should start to become an actual problem in the next 20 years, maybe 40.