10 July

This. Regional areas have no real reason to exist now, that their founding rationale of resources for the cities is increasingly irrelevant. But as renewable energy and data centre hubs, they can become important again. They can become the locus of the new Industrial Revolution. As tourism ‘tree change’ theme parks for bored city people, with expensive food and coffee, they have no future. Social media zombies will oppose that shift every step of the way, with their fake viral outrages. People in the regions need to understand the people who start those outrages live in cities, often in other countries (usually the US).