Volatile food and energy prices mean less money for “luxury” foods like local and organic. Less money for those things means fewer small farmers sending out CSA baskets. Fewer small farmers means more reliance on industrial agriculture … adapt – a person dealing with a radical reduction in wealth can’t imagine large infrastructure investments, and their town or state or nation can only perform them if they can borrow money to make up for a rapidly declining tax revenue. … …
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