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In a world where disconcerting episodes like the Food Crisis and Global Warming have struck the world in a draconic fashion, we have no time for idealistic solutions: pragmatism should be the key word. Therefore, this essay proposed to look at present conundrums, identify the most pressing bottlenecks that hinder development, and tackle them at their roots. If we are to ensure the well being of future generations, we are not to move the masses; we are to move the bottleneck of tomorrow.

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The essay points out why society has not yet been able to solve the food and energy crisis. Several sub-systems like law, economy and politics do neither have the possibility to communicate together in a fuctional way nor to find a solution that is accepted in society as whole. The essay shows how this problem may change, if the systems of education and mass media get to produce and communicate a society-wide meaning and consciousness for the necessarity and advantage of a solution. This would force the more powerful sub-systems politics, law and economy to jump at this process.

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The world is running out of fossil fuel energy, and this means that we risk running out of sufficient food to sustain our global society. Our current globalised system already fails one sixth of the world’s population. They starve while developed countries waste immense amounts of food. This current system cannot be relied on to solve the looming food and energy crisis. We need a fundamentally different set of priorities. The world’s leaders must rise to the challenge of leading our global society through an urgently needed social transition if we are to sustain and improve society’s well-being. (98 words)

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Poor living standards don’t depend on growing population in an economic system built to belive in ecologic solutions, on the contrary. In that economic system, we don’t have to consume less, but to consume lively ecologic technologies. For that “lively” to happen we need a thorough marketing research to influence the consumer beliefs. At first, it should follow a hybrid communication input model and then it should materialise in a lateral marketing solution. To be sustainable, the process shouldn’t take place just on high decision levels, but on every individual living ways too. Because rescuing, in fundamentals, can be successful only if it’s a solidary manner in front of the only existing red boat.

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The impact of globalization has been negative for the whole world, both in terms of food and energy. Global economic crisis has influenced the development of all countries by shortages felt by all. The problem is the daily food and energy, we can not live without them because it was known, for stress and routine we need physical and psychological power. We can assert that energy have found solutions in renewables, but for food? Addressing could be a complementary solution or compatible with the two global issues.

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The humanity is at full strain due to the constant rising of oil and food prices. The crisis is no longer spreading only in the developing countries, but in all parts of the world. The purpose of this essay is to outline the main causes of both the food and energy crisis and more importantly, emphasize on the possible ways to solve them. The key ingredients in the solution recipe are boosting the production of local markets instead of tolerating foreign imports, improving social Safety Net departments and educating people for their own responsibilities that can contribute to the global cause.

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While the energy crisis threatens modern lifestyles, the recent rise of food prices has thrown many more humans closer or beyond the survival limit. After examining the two problems individually, I show that both are only symptoms of overconsumption and inequality, embedded in dominant and spreading modes of life and organization. Noting that current consumption levels are fundamentally unsustainable, that reinforcing adverse trends are converging and that the behavior of relevant contemporary institutions is inadequate, I argue that citizens must engage radically different paths. I conclude by advocating for volunteering as a mean for reaching such alternative worlds and for fostering individual and collective well-being.

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Long time ago in the ancient times, tribes of Inks and Aztecs strongly believed in the power of Gold. Surprisingly their Gold wasn’t that what glitters but in food, the corn growing in the ground of North America. It shocked every European civilized man and so felt Francisco Pizarro the conquistador, whose admiration was in a real metal. I wonder what the gold is in our times. What is this precious thing we would even kill for? Would we bet for food we need to survive or energy, vital force powering the world system? It is a choice to take and the clock is ticking.

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A master-plan with a logical ten-steps way to work against economic crises, such as the energy and food crisis, cannot be imposed on society by a professional and powerful authority from above. Instead, our society has to start rethinking the ways of living, changing old views on how to deal with the environment with alternative ones, and working together as a community and network to help each other. Only reforming society by society itself can make its well-being and preparedness for crises possible. Practical reforms in economy and ecology have to come from each individual as a member of a society and from all societies of the world. Eventually, a braver world could be achieved.

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In the face of great crises, great action is required. The current food and energy crises have been caused by the actions of our entire society and, thus, can only be solved when our entire society works together. It is time now to stop looking for heroes that will save us and time to save ourselves, as ordinary people, in an ordinary way, working together to do extraordinary things. This will be accomplished through the daily, individual economic decisions that each of us make, which produce pressure on businesses, infrastructure, government, and the system responsible for the problems at hand.