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Basically, the trucking fleet stops. Areas that went all-in to car culture post WWII in total disarray/martial law (attempted) mass migrations (we already have lots of cages and for-profit prisons -- remember worst-case scenario) food riots. ++
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Multiple ongoing civil wars in major countries, disruptions in food supplies to the rest of them, refugee crises, economic volatility, breakdowns in international trade.
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Energy return on energy invested hits an event horizon which can no longer support industrial civilization, and we haven’t achieved escape velocity with renewables yet. Everything interlinked with oil suffers (transport of food and water, shipping, air travel)
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America's cultural secession wars. Parts of US declare they're not part of the "other" parts because of their beliefs... But both are still "true" to the US ideals and won't secede officially.
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