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P270
China, India, and other nations with megacities will face massive instability due to food and water insecurity as urban populations cannot feed themselves

What Jiang said

“They exist because of globalization. Because what megacities do is they're able to bring in a lot of people, have them specialize in a particular area, make it industrial, and then export to to to the rest of the world”

Analysis

Megacities in China and India are problematic because both countries suffer from food and water issues. Cities should not exist in a resilient world.

Source lecture

• Game Theory #15

Status history

• 2026-05-23 · Pending (glm)

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