The World is Closer to a Food Crisis Than Most People Realize

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15. personally, I don't believe top-down solutions will work

Huge conglomerates will put profits first; they are legally required to and self-interest always rules at every level.

Second, people always put self-interest first; that is normal. However, too many refuse or incapable of recognizing that we not only "share" this planet with other life forms, we are totally interdependent on them in ways we cannot begin to understand or imagine.

Contrary to the teachings of too many religions, the earth and its beings are not "ours" to carve up, use and abuse to meet our whims. We belong to earth, not the other way around.

But I expect the party will continue while the ship goes down; and while those on the upper decks dance, those consigned to the bottom decks drown.