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.
For more stories about what we could expect very soon check out.
http://www.animalsdinosaursandbugs.com/Weakest-Link2.htm
Thank you for your time
Peter Legrove
The suburban survivalist
