prediction
He forecasts three major trends: deindustrialization/deurbanization toward food and manufacturing, nationalism/remilitarization, and mercantilist self-sufficient spheres.
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Deurbanization
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prediction
The first post-empire trend Jiang predicts is deindustrialization and deurbanization: cheap-energy megacities and specialized global agriculture become unsustainable when oil and fertilizer systems break.
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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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"young people, and moving them back to the rural areas so that they can grow food and be self -sufficient. That's going to be..."
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"And then in the Western Hemisphere, I think that America will come out okay. Because really, I mean, America is a superpower regardless. So..."
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"this unipolar moment but now that you have this aura of inevitability and it's really collapsed uh punctured by this war in iran then..."
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"million plus people there are um and and where they're getting food is uh inputting this food uh from overseas or internally okay so..."
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"point which is like the industrialization and urbanization require cheap energy and once you lose access to cheap energy you have to worry about..."
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Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
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