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Megacities are bad from a resilience perspective because they are products of globalization that concentrate specialized industrial populations instead of food-growing self-sufficient communities.
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Megacities
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Another issue I want to bring up is the idea of megacities. And, the idea of megacities is any cities that have over 10..."
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One item in Jiang's checklist is over-urbanization: he says Western megacities have become parasitic sites of luxury, decadence, and corruption that no longer produce real value.
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"...Another issue I want to bring up is the idea of megacities. And, the idea of megacities is any cities that have over 10..."
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"Okay? And, where are most megacities located? Well, they're located in India and in China. There's a problem because India and China both suffer..."
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"Yeah absolutely. You're absolutely right. Arthur Spengler. He had a checklist for. How do you know a society is in decline. When he means..."
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