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<blockquote data-quote="icarus_85" data-source="post: 3636447" data-attributes="member: 40891"><p>Well.. we could certainly start mining certain minerals, metals, coal, etc. again if we had to. We used to feed the world and we could easily start feeding ourselves just on the sheer size of ag in this country. Beef, poultry, pork is doable. We have an amazing amount of oil and gas reserves we can tap into again. Clean trash to energy technology is there, we'd just have to commit to it and just do it. Our biggest worry if we just stopped trading with China would be "us". Dealing with progressive green policies while trying to become self-sustaining again would be near impossible without a moratorium on certain green policies for the time being. Each state would have to take an inventory of its own resources, man-made and natural, its technology, and productive output. We would have to pull together.... as we have done in the distant past, to survive and then thrive. This would be a very "nationalistic" and unpopular thing to do among the more radical progressives. Resistance from them would be strong. It could come down to brute force on some policies. But, I think there would be enough compromise among the more rational members of society to pull it off. These are just a few things that would be affected. As many have noted in this thread, there are many many more issues, products, and processes that would be severely disrupted and we would have to prioritize everything.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="icarus_85, post: 3636447, member: 40891"] Well.. we could certainly start mining certain minerals, metals, coal, etc. again if we had to. We used to feed the world and we could easily start feeding ourselves just on the sheer size of ag in this country. Beef, poultry, pork is doable. We have an amazing amount of oil and gas reserves we can tap into again. Clean trash to energy technology is there, we'd just have to commit to it and just do it. Our biggest worry if we just stopped trading with China would be "us". Dealing with progressive green policies while trying to become self-sustaining again would be near impossible without a moratorium on certain green policies for the time being. Each state would have to take an inventory of its own resources, man-made and natural, its technology, and productive output. We would have to pull together.... as we have done in the distant past, to survive and then thrive. This would be a very "nationalistic" and unpopular thing to do among the more radical progressives. Resistance from them would be strong. It could come down to brute force on some policies. But, I think there would be enough compromise among the more rational members of society to pull it off. These are just a few things that would be affected. As many have noted in this thread, there are many many more issues, products, and processes that would be severely disrupted and we would have to prioritize everything. [/QUOTE]
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