Here in North America, we are largely self-sufficient in our ability to grow food and energy production (largely due to fracking) has recently risen to the point where we're nearly self-sufficient in that area, too.
So, for North America, a complete collapse of trucking would have a more devastating impact that a loss of shipping.
However, North America is not the whole world, and I suspect many societies are more dependent upon imports brought in by ship than they are on trucking to distribute goods.
This post was edited by SaltyPebble at December 5, 2019 12:28 PM MST
So one size does not fit all? "It depends" and "It's complicated". I was just wondering if there were no trucking and no shipping what kind of progress could have been made and what would 2019 look like? Thank you for your thoughtful reply SP and Happy Thursday to thee! :) I think I'm gonna ask.
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