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If things go very bad, and sea transportation becomes horribly expensive (think Somalia-like piracy growing stronger), Iceland might become a rather disagreeable place to live in...

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 07:25:31 AM EST
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Thanks for the answer, that thought had been bouncing around in my head.

I am actually concerned about now, today, how are they going to feed their citizens when they cannot buy even the food in port.

I came across a report on South America where there are wheat shipments on the dock in Brazil but no one can get the credit to buy and distribute it.

As we say in the Army, everything is going to shit, what is your go to shit plan?

"Schiller sprach zu Goethe, Steck in dem Arsch die Flöte! Goethe sagte zu Schiller, Mein Arsch ist kein Triller!"

by Jeffersonian Democrat (rzg6f@virginia.edu) on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 08:23:01 AM EST
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Shipping is cheap, and will stay cheap no matter what.

Air traffic though... But there are ways to make air traffic cheap again, if we're just willing to radically reconsider what flying is about, and how we arrange the internal infrastructure of airplanes. ;)

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 09:18:01 AM EST
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As I said, if sea security becomes again hard to organise, shipping could be hard to organise. Which brings us back to the necessary autarcy of the middle age, or indeed WWII... I'd go for a place with plenty of agricultural land.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 09:40:21 AM EST
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