‘Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night’. It looks like
the severe food problems long predicted by some agriculture, climate
and peak analysts are arriving more or less on cue, with tragic
results. Some of the problems are more obviously connected to the
growing energy crisis, some apparently not. But the underlying drivers
of all the problems are energy and population, and that means there is
something the West can do about it, provided we make the right
connexions between our dinner plates, the gas pump and the plight of
the global poor. More