Suez will be high and dry.
Panama canal will require a whole lot more digging and is probably impractical.
Most if not all existing ports are high and dry, utterly disrupting trade and immigration.
How long do we wait to see if it's permanent before we react?
I reckon this is not easy. Cars offer an element of self-reliance and individual choice that people will jump on, given the chance.
So I reckon it's not a single thing but a lot of little nudges over time, with differing effectiveness in different places. But:
-Guys like Ford aren't as...
Be right back, finishing up my alternate history biography of a South African mining engineer, Jackhammers, Pumps, and Shafts: The Hot, Hard Life of Magnus Sachs.