We are coming to what may be the end of the period, a golden era or a golden time in food where we could count on food becoming more abundant, of higher quality, safer, more convenient, more interesting, more varied.
The system[s] that we built to provide this increasing abundance, variety, quality and safety - those systems are under a huge amount of strain, and they are beginning to break down.
If we are having trouble producing food, if food is more expensive, if food security is reduced, won't that ultimately affect population, and won't that curb population - won't we end up with a smaller population?
And it's pretty scary when you realize how separated we are, how divorced we are, from the means of production ... we are so far, so remote, from the means of production, from the ability to produce our own food, that we are entirely vulnerable, we are entirely dependent on a huge system - a system that is in trouble right now.
So everyone has to be asking themselves, what am I going to do, not if the system breaks down, but when?
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