Once again, if the price for transporting food gets super expensive, it will start to make sense to grow more and more food from a city's local surroundings. People will stop buying food imported from across the country and world, and buy more locally. They'll hate not being able to buy strawberries in winter, but boo hoo.

And the higher transportation costs go, the range of imported food will shrink until most food is grown nearby the city. Cities that don't have fertile lands around them will have a more expensive cost of living. Just like it's expensive to live in Alaska or the desert.

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Fraser Cain
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