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Re:Collapse of Liangzhu and other Neolithic cultures in resp... by sharikous on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @08:11PM (#29411341)
Coming from Israel, where everything is looked at through a military/security/strategic lens, this seems a strategic nightmare, but also wonderful.

Danish people know that neighboring nations won't wage war in the near future and can afford to be several steps removed from survival considerations.

I don't think, however, that Denmark is irresilient. The same supply chain you are worried to be too dependent from has to be quite robust for the country to rely on that. Apart from sudden and rapid events I bet that same supply chain will handle well medium/slow changes like climate change.

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Re:Collapse of Liangzhu and other Neolithic cultures in resp... by titzer on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @10:13PM (#29412100)
> has to be quite robust

Absent frequent disruptions, markets do not optimize for robustness; they optimize for efficiency and profit. So no, I don't agree that these supply chains are robust. It's like arguing "life on Earth evolved to be dependent on oxygen, therefore oxygen must be everywhere in the universe" (not remotely true); classic overfitting.

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