Ecological Suicide

Ecological suicide—particularly as it relates to humanity’s ability to feed itself—now looms as a far more immediate threat to human security than does global warming.  Indeed, global warming is but one, albeit significant, factor leading to the likely collapse of the post Cold War, Globalization dream.  A synthesis of the peer-reviewed papers suggests that “peak oil, water, soil, forests, fish, biodiversity and grain yields” will occur—if they haven’t already—within the next half-century.  Of the many disturbing consequences, the most unsettling remains the prospect of mass starvation within the Third World.  Yet, because the same global forces that have shaped our dreams have shaped our delusions, this horrific implication has received relatively scant notice in the mainstream media.