Glossary
A forced reduction of urban-industrial life when cheap food and energy imports can no longer sustain large city populations.
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de-industrialization
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...energy is longer cheap and accessible the first major trend is de -industrialization um meaning that right now you just have too many people..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...energy is longer cheap and accessible the first major trend is de -industrialization um meaning that right now you just have too many people..."
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Glossary
The collapse of modern industrial life once cheap oil can no longer support energy, food, plastics, AI, and dense urban economies.
Glossary
Jiang's prescription for a less energy-intensive, more self-sufficient economic order after Middle East breakdown.
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Jiang says prolonged Hormuz closure would rapidly hit food, travel, semiconductors, and oil prices, forcing future economies toward de-industrialization and mercantilism to survive shocks.
prediction
Jiang predicts de-industrialization over the next five to ten years because modern food, plastics, EVs, AI, and data centers all depend on cheap oil that the war is putting out of reach.
prediction
Jiang says the coming de-industrialized order would force nations to move population from urban centers to rural food-producing zones because cities cannot sustain themselves without cheap energy and global trade.
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"...energy is longer cheap and accessible the first major trend is de -industrialization um meaning that right now you just have too many people..."
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". And this means that these young men could not afford their own offense anymore and this could lead to a revolution in the..."
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"...the future global economies have to commit to a bit of de -industrialization and even mercantilism in order to survive future shocks"
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"...that we can anticipate okay the first major trend is the industrialization why because the entire global economy is based on access to cheap..."
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"...next five to ten years okay the first major trend is de -industrialization because right now the modern economy is based entirely on access..."
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"can buy avocado from chile where you can buy vodka from russia any day any time um all of the year but that's not..."
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"saying i'm exactly yes thank you yes that's exactly what i'm saying they have actually no choice in the matter because again urban centers..."
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"...major trends that follow from this. The first major trend is de -industrialization because you don't have access to cheap energy. So you need..."
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"So the first major trend is is de -industrialization and de -urbanization. Meaning that it doesn't really make sense to have millions of people..."
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"...very quickly because of this war. The first major trend is de -industrialization. There's no way around it, right? Because before, the entire world..."
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"...most vibrant okay and these three major trends are number one de -industrialization and de -urbanization okay so what i mean by that is..."
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"...but I imagine it means two things the first is massive de -industrialization so that you are less dependent on energy the second is..."
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Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
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Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
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Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
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George Galloway brings Jiang on for an immediate wartime reading, and Jiang answers by turning battlefield questions into a larger trap structure.
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