The future is going to be very hard for people in suburban areas, as you've implied. (Thankfully, I hate suburban and rural areas, so I'll stay near public transportation in the cities.) That is, of course, depending on the state of renewable energy. But I would look for increasing urbanization, if renewables move slowly, in the future. That, however, could bring up the possibility of even more problems.
It's a bit frightening to hear of the BNP being at the event. The far right does have a tendency to perform very well in elections during tough times. It also has a nasty tendency to start wars. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
What I am saying: The majority of investment is undertaken by people investing other people's money. Thus, their performance horizon is set by bonus schemes and the like and is on the order of 3 months to 1 year.
This pattern has so far held up very well in the oil market, where there is a lot of energy and analysis devoted to short term issues (c.f. Nigeria and Iran at the moment) and trying to judge the timing and length of these disruptions. Very little investment flow has been concerned with longer term issues, despite being pointed up by lots of sources.
