![]() ![]() It worked for a bit, but the new steam engines required power and that power came from coal and that coal came from ever-deeper shafts that filled with ever-more water, so miners hadn’t really solved their problem, but instead industrialized its scale. Muscle didn’t work at all to clear out the freakin’ water table, so steam engines came into being to address the problem. Those deeper mines punched below the water table, necessitating pumps to force out water. Ever-higher coal demand led to ever-deeper coal mines. ![]() Deforestation drove up the price of wood, improving the economics of the alternative: coal. In the early industrial era, London, like most major early industrial cities, had grown beyond its ability to harvest timber for charcoal. (Very sad.) What you can do is purchase ground polenta, flour, Himalayan salt, green peppercorns, turbinado sugar, cholesterol-free eggs in a carton, sushi-grade tuna, rice vinegar, hothouse cucumbers, smoked salmon, wasabi, mayo, nori sheets, multicolor carrots, ginger, miso paste, soy sauce, sesame seeds, and safflower oil. Now, this may come as a surprise, but you can’t just go to a grocery store and purchase a ready-made sushi corndog dish from the freezer section. ![]() In The End of the World is Just the Beginning, author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging. ![]()
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