Megacities have grown as we have became more reliant on cheap oil but those days are numbered.

    Megacities have grown as we have became more reliant on cheap oil but those days are numbered. With cities, food has to be brought in and as the price of oil keeps going up, food will start to get more expensive. So the cities that are surrounded by farmland that grows food to supply the city will survive.

    The cities in the Pearl River Delta in China are all surrounded by farmland so those cities will survive, except for Hong Kong. Hong Kong is just a rock and according to the TV it gets 90% of its food from China. Also their water comes from China but they seem to forget they are at the end of the pipeline and if China has water problems Hong Kong will have problems also.

     I’m at the China Trade Fair in Guangzhou and the complex used to have farmland across the road but now the fair complex is so big it just swallowed it up. Also China has the One Child Policy and that has put a serious dent in child poverty, and I would say one of the reasons there are no big slums in China. Actually I have not seen any slums in China. But then again I have never been very far out of the big cities.

     I think Guangzhou’s big mistake was banning the motorcycle as well as the electric motorcycle and the three-wheel motorcycle cart. I saw the police rounding up motorcycles the other day. I hope, as the price of oil gets more expensive they will change the law and bring them back.

     Traffic jams are not a serious problem here. As they re-engineered the city traffic jams are a thing of the past. Actually the traffic is a lot better than it was 4 years ago. And they now have the subway.  

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The Unintended Consequences of China's Demonic One Child Policy

China has had the One Child Policy for over 30 years now. I don't know if they still got it. Every time I go to China I see more and more two and three child families. But that little law they brought in thirty odd years ago, that disrupted the world and turned China into a demonic country in most peoples eyes, could be the reason China is heading for superpower status. A lot of people talked about the ratio of old people to young people and how one young person was going to have to look after two parents and four grandparents. And so far all that has managed to do is start up a new industry. Now you hire someone from the village to live in your house and look after your parents, grandparents and your kid. Some of the off spring from the one child policy who are now married do this. But the unintended consequences have turned the big cities in China into some of the safest cities in the world. Most of the problems that plague modern cities just don't exist in China cities. There is no graffiti, no street gangs, no street kids no drugs and no drunken teenagers behind the wheel. But the best unintended consequence is education. China has or will soon have the most educated population on the planet.

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It Is Time To Lay Off Having Too Many Kids

I still think every child born this millennium is in for a rough ride. They will see the end of oil, the end of plentiful food and safe water to drink, plus the end of the modern medical system and possible the end of electricity. But we can look on the bright side, they will also see the end of obesity. What I don't understand is why very few people have made the connection between population and food supply. It is quite obvious really if we stopped having kids there would be a lot less mouths to feed. The riots in Egypt started over food and they could start here in the near future.
God said on the first page of the Bible, Genesis Chapter 1 verse 22, 28 "Be fruitful and multiply" but if you read on further there are other references to not overdoing the multiplying.
In the Genesis 3 verse 16 (King James Version) it is written "unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children" God is not really making out that getting pregnant and having babies is a happy thing to do.
Also further on in the Gospels of the New Testament in Matthew 24 verse 19 and others Jesus says "And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days." Admittedly here the Lord Jesus is talking about the end of times. And now I think we are nearing the end of times, so it might be time to lay off having too many kids.
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Peter Legrove
The suburban survivalist