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Drastic increase in food and fuel prices has aroused the world’s concerns, creating a global crisis and causing political and economical instability and social unrest in many nations. In face of energy crisis, to society, the article highlights the importance of alternative energy source, and investment in technology and people. In cope with food crisis, issues of safety nets, supply and demand of food, and food safety are mentioned. Finally, people, technology and governance are the prerequisites to sustainability. The Chinese word for ‘crisis’, wei ji, tells a truth – a time of crisis is also a time of opportunity.

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In search of an efficient solution, one may start with the hypothesis, like in mathematics. The food and energy crisis reveals a deeper and complex crisis, springing from the core of human beings.

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The recent increase in food and oil prices has brought the question of sustainable energy again on the agenda. Over the last years a lot of attention has been devoted to biofuels as a way to ensure energy security. Both the US and the EU adopted ambitious biofuels strategies, with disastrous effects for the global agricultural markets. This essay argues that biofuels are not an appropriate solution to the food and energy crisis, since they have been identified as the main culprit for the rise in food prices. Instead, developing technologies for energy preservation are much more desirable.

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Today’s food and energy crises should not be seen solely as a threat to our well-being, but rather as a warning sign, and as a reason for people to accept temporary reductions of their wealth and conveniences in order to solve global problems and improve society’s well-being in the long run.

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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.

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The food and energy crisis has created a potentially radical impetus for society change, arguably lending to a discussion of the importance of a community-based approach to resource management. Active participation of individuals can potentially empower residents to be more ecologically sensitive in their everyday lives mirroring the need of council and governmental bodies to adopt a more integrated approach to food and energy production. Co-housing developments offer a theoretical outline of the significance of community-based living that needs to be instilled in town planning. The emphasis maintained throughout is that we need localisation rather than globalisation, or at least a redefinition of the latter according to sustainable principles.

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The global food and energy prices have brought a sea change to their landscape. For the reinforced of per capita income growth, rapid industrialization, urbanization, higher commodity intensity of growth and rapid population growth in some emerging economies as well as biofuels demand has increased in developed countries are responsible for these crisis. Thus, food and energy exporting countries have benefited, whereas some importing countries experienced substantial losses. In this essay first, I have portrayed the discussion on the rising global food and energy crisis. And, finally conclude with how societies can improve from this disaster.

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At a first glance it might seem that food and energy crisis can only disable our efforts of improving human well-being. On the second look though, we might perceive the coming crisis as an incentive of improvement. Our well-being can be improved in days of crisis by understanding what well-being really means and by developing its aspects that have been, due to our emphasis on material side, neglected for a long time. But the material side can be improved as well, by developing efficiency at every aspects of our private and public life.

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The great challenge of our time is not so visible, it is more subtle, but perhaps the greatest threat humanity has faced in its entire history. With the supplies of oil and natural gas quickly depleting, our way of life is changing. Things we once took for granted, like basic consumer products, are now almost outside our reach. The great test of our generation is upon us. If we fail now it will be our children that have to pay the price. Alternative energy and eco-friendly fuel is the answer. It is up to us to harness that energy.

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We face a crisis as we have never seen before, with three main pillars: food, energetic and economic. Thus, we should reconsider our development model since it has been shown to be weak. A new development model must be embraced, one that understands that natural resources are limited and therefore economic growth cannot be unlimited. This will give us the chance to improve our well-being by different means that will be stated further on. This article intends to approach the crisis from the above-mentioned “pillars”, focusing on the energetic and food crisis, with the economic aspect impregnating the whole essay.

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Today‘s fast-moving world is crisis-stricken in food, fuel and climate change areas. Tomorrow’s world is said to have nine billion people and that’s where the dangerous line we stand at today will be crossed over. How do we feed the world? And by feed I mean not only food but fuel and oxygen also. Most of the possible solutions to one problem seem to have negative effect on the other one. The essay focuses on the ways to escape such vicious circles in the face of crises.

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The current food and energy crises may be unprecedented in their global impact, yet they are only symptoms of the deeper problems of structural inequality throughout the world. In keeping with the growing discourse on global citizenship, I propose that society must be redefined, widening its traditional focus national borders to encompass all humanity. This will form the basis for the development of a new social contract which recognizes the right of all to realize their well being. Only in such a situation can well being be said to exist, and therefore have the possibility of improvement.

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Finite resources for continues growing demand: a never ending story of human development after the industrial revolution. Does a complicated problem need a complicated solution? Or should we focus the attention on one key aspect directly connected to the majority of critical points of the problem? Which is the line that links the majority of fields involved in the solution to the food and energy crisis? From my point view water protection, in all of its states, is one simple goal with multiple and widespread consequences. Water: from creation to salvation.

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The best way to avoid and overcome a crisis is to teach people to be responsible because many of us are actually wasting resources becous of our wellfare. Two other ways to overcome an energy crisis is the efficient use of the fertile land and using the sun energy.

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Over the past few years, food and energetic prices have experienced a dramatic drop, together with important social progresses, international security issues and a current slowdown of worldwide economic growth. The exponential growth of worldwide population is not sustainably possible as the earth has some physical, biological and ecological limits. Developing the economy by following the economical theory of compared advantages does not necessarily result in higher levels of well-being. Therefore what directions should the economy take to promote well-being? What options may we contemplate?

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In spite of investing a great amount of effort in the reduction of resource consumption, energy-demanding technologies and high consumption persist. They only change their form and geographic position. It is perhaps due to the fact that the mankind has still not succeeded in revealing the real cause embedded in human desire. It is greediness and the belief that more things and pleasure are needed for the complete happiness. It is known that increased efficiency without reduction of consumption habits is not enough (Rebound Effect). Therefore, it is obvious that we need remove the primary causes of the consumption process.

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Global citizenship, first and foremost, is an implied sense of belonging to a political community larger than that of our own state. It is concerned with the protection of human rights, the escape from poverty, lack of education and poor health, among many others; that afflict the lives of the global majority. As global citizens, we should be aware of the shared control over our environmental resources such as the climate system, the ozone layer and the seas. These responsibilities should not only be international (going beyond national boundaries) but also intergenerational (going beyond the succession of the generations).

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As I engaged this subject, in trepidation of squeezing my path to redefined prosperity into 1000 words, I realised that my motives for expression were evolving away from the prize fund and prestige. What mattered now were not economic interests, or impressing people, but gaining new insight, and creatively compromising my thoughts into solutions. I believe a similar shift is required from society on a global stage, for us to arrive at a state of balanced well being. I’d like to continue my reliance on analogies with a personal bias towards my agricultural background.

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The world as we know it today is faced with increasing oil prices, decreasing food production and ecological abuse… A good policy should result in interventions which are no longer undesired (66% of the sugar production is subsidized, so the sugar industry is not for nothing called “the white gold”…) or which remove the problem to another crisis (the production of bio-gases means less grain). This problem is comparable with cancer for the economic system and assumes a well thought-out strategy in the short and in the long term, supporting both the inter and the intra industry trade.

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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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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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It is often said that little drops of water make a mighty ocean. Such is the case where little acts of change reflect massively on a big picture. This approach is one which society must take in order to seek to improve its well being; faced with today’s food and energy crisis.

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As energy and food security decline in the 21st century, the ability of centralised institutions and production methods to deal with a mounting crisis seems to decline in equal measure. This essay argues that society needs to rethink, reorganise and revolutionise its organisational structure, adapting the resources at its disposal toward decentralised production methods. This would help to create an independent, responsible and sustainable society which can avoid an ensuing economic and social catastrophe. Whilst we possess the technology and knowledge to overcome our problems, history shows our fate is dependent upon our ability to evolve, adapt and change.

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The world today is faced with food and energy crisis and the buzz word for every person or country now is sustainable development. There are beautiful structures, policies and documents detailing out what can be done but what the main driving force for these is the human race. This means that the human race is the main instrument to be tackled and once that is changed all the other machinery will work perfectly. What do I mean, until I see the greed and selfishness kicked out of the today’s human race, then I do not foresee sustainability in anything whether food, energy or climate change. Hence, rich and poor people, rich countries and poor countries must have a common interest for sustainability in food and energy production and management.

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The realisation that communities lack resilience in the face of food and energy scarcity, forces a reconsideration of our developmental objectives. We are challenged to identify new or adapted systems for production, distribution and consumption suited to delivering well-being now and in the future. We must ensure suitable investment in those capitals influencing well-being: Capital that complements, allows for and is interdependent upon meeting food and energy needs; such as kinship, health and education. A knowledge of sustainability technologies, policy and science underpins this essay but I have written a human story, for that is the story that must unfold.

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International links need to be strengthened in every time of crisis, and the coming energy and food crises are no different. Protectionism may seem like the best option for some countries, but the reality is that without cooperation, no country will be able to withstand the challenges facing us. As such, firm action will have to be taken to curb rising population levels, and every person will have to understand that unnecessary comforts will have to be sacrificed to ensure a peaceful future.

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The essay argues for a return to a more historical and philosophical rationale for advancing society in which it is not implicitly understood that 'progress' means 'technological innovation'. The belief in modern society that bliss is to get what we desire, and what we desire is unproblematically understood as 'individual preferences' rather than something which can change through moral education, so that we take it for granted that we can have whatever we desire at any given time in the local 7-11, is one of the reasons why we are facing catastrophe through overproduction.

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The problem of food and energy crisis is becoming a global concern. The reasons for this problem are overpopulation, lack of funds for development of new and efficient energy resources, corruption, hoarding and poor supply chain and man management. The possible answer to the problem is population control, lending monetary support to nations for development of efficient fuel resources to meet the energy demands. Corruption should be stopped. Hoarding should be prevented and land allocation for the purpose of vegetation should be done. All in all a combined and dedicated effort on the global front is the need of the hour.

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Today’s food and energy crisis is the big challenge for human beings. To begin with, we must find the way out of the arguable question ‘how can society improve its wellbeing?’ Second, are we not comfortable yet? Or do we really need to make better our welfare? The world’s population is increasing rapidly together with the scientific evolution, causing our society of materialism and consumerism. Industrialized countries are living comfortably enough. Society doesn't need to improve its welfare. Instead, society needs to share it better with the rest of the world. This is our mission, and we have to figure it out together.

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The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has described the global food shortage and soaring cost of staple foods as a “silent tsunami”. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), more than 852 million people, about 13% of the world population are starving.

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Contemporary food and energy crisis is at the top of the global order for survival. Everyone tries to escaper from it however the fact is that the human change is the only way to manage this crisis. This essay explores the fundamental factor of this crisis and recommends a positive way to recover society’s well being amidst this crisis through compassionate consumption of people in general and committed policy making by global policy makers in particular.

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The food and energy crisis that is threatening our societies at the dawn of this new century has radically different causes than the previous ones we faced. It finds its roots in today’s world interdependent system. We used to be self-sufficient in everything before the massive globalization movement. So it is maybe time for this concept to get wiser and shift to a more mature level where it does not affect negatively the food and energy security of the world’s societies. A return to some basic human trends is the key to go further ahead in a more sustainable and steady way.

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With the world’s economic and social landscape changing constantly, food and energy, more specifically the lack of it are being thrust into the fore the international stage. Societies all over the world are faced with a pending and ongoing crisis. Global populations have reached over 6.5 billion people. This staggering amount is expected to reach over 9 billion by 2040. This staggering growth coincides, almost in direct correlation you can say, with the shortages of food and energy available. With ardent and constant monitoring and a vigilant take on the crisis, the social well being of societies internationally could be improved. However a failure to do so would not only call into question the governing bodies’ integrities but more importantly the effect on the populace would be dire.

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More than 10 million Kenyans are at the risk of starvation creating a national disaster in the year 2009. There is a raging debate as to whether the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture can improve on the situation. This essay analyses the current food crises and use of GMOs in Kenya, identifies causative factors and suggests solutions to the food insecurity.

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Food and energy crises are instigated and propagated by mans activities within ecological niches, which are similar within communities and regions but varies in capacities. Their effect commences gradually from communities then multiplies globally. Various foodstuffs are produced in different countries/regions, depending on weather, climate and soil type. But mans quest for new technologies, maximum profits, globalization and power is promulgating food and energy crises and global over warming as he strives for development and dominance. The remedy is to educate/train, encourage and assist Rural/Urban Subsistence Farmers to Employ Mix-Organic Farming and ICT for Sustainable Green Agricultural Development.

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The world is in peril. The livelihood of the masses is threatened with lack of basic needs for their daily existence from energy to climate, food & financial meltdown- a downturn that is more fatal than the depression in 1930 and 1989. The scheme to find an alternative, a substitute to avert each of the crises, makes it much worse. An approach to improve the livelihood of people, in each society, must be presented. Each point of view of the factors that shaped the crises should be critically examined.

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The autonomy of the producer of food has been invaded by irresistible forces of globalization which are not easy to grasp due to its unpredictability and high speed. The problem with globalization is that it is a hidden enemy; no one can point the finger on it. Globalization has undermined the importance of land; this has to be prevented by a revaluation of the role of food in the life of millions of people. It`s time to stop measuring well being with luxury cars or vacations in Dubai, when in fact around one billion people barely can feed their children.

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One major problem in our society is the enormous amount of wasted groceries. Little attention has been concentrated on the general stores that are responsible for part of this waste. I suggest labeling of stores with a low waste amount. The idea is that this label should work as a competitive advantage for the stores thereby stimulating them to meets the requirements. This label would also make the customers aware of the problem and thereby urge to a more restrictive approach towards waste in a wider sense. To achieve a really energy effective society all parts needs to be included.

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“I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen” - James Lovelock Humanity is currently experiencing an unprecedented golden age, largely based on tremendous growth in the use of fossil fuels. However, we face a multifaceted energy and food crises that threatens to end this golden era...or does it? Do we really need ever increasing amounts of energy to improve our well-being? Or have previous generations got it wrong? Instead of entering into a double bind in our futile pursuit of GDP, we should focus on what really matters – well-being itself.

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Sustainable development and economic stability have limited prospects of fruition in the absence of a more orderly international system. Global political stability is to transnational economic growth what air is to fire: without the former, the latter cannot even begin, much less flourish. The general idea is, therefore, twofold: more provisions must be made to regulate what Realist international relations scholars have already defined as an inherently anarchic system of governmental interaction. Having outlined these provisions, it is necessary to analyze the numerous ways in which a more cooperative international order can translate into a comprehensive solution for the food and energy problem.

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This essay discusses the way in which greed for capital affects humanity and the way in which it has impoverished our wellbeing as a society and caused the current food and energy crisis. I will be referring to ideas that suggest ways in which we can improve our wellbeing as a society. My essay includes minimum statistical examples, instead drawing more personally on the problem our unsustainable way of gaining energy has effected uncontacted tribes, taking a look a the issues from a social point of view, exemplifying the importance of being moral in the way in which we obtain resources.

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The current food and energy crisis has already begun to devastate communities and deepen the effects of poverty, hunger and malnutrition. The increasing scarcity of food and energy is the biggest crisis looming for the world'', according to WFP officials. At the same time, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation have warned that rising prices have already triggered riots in more than 36 countries around the world, threatening political and social stability. The World Bank points out that global food prices have risen by 75% since 2000.If prices keep rising, more and more people around the globe will be unable to afford the food they need to stay alive, and without help they will become desperate. More food riots will flare up, governments will totter and millions could die. For the first time in history, say experts, the impact is spreading from the developing to the developed world, with the developing world being much more affected.

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“There is enough for everyone’s need but not enough for anyone’s greed” M. Ghandi. This essay is a brief synopsis of some of the biggest problems our world faces today which can be stopped by political, economical, cultural and social awareness. Everything comes down to: sustainable development, a concept utilized more and more but which needs global implementation. Food and energy are basic needs which change nature and human activity in relation to nature. Environment includes open systems that leave open doors either for damaging it or for improving its constant demand for balance.

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A food and energy crisis represents both a danger and an opportunity to society. Whilst the danger lies in the relative hardship and threat to survival that the shortage engenders with its consonant rises in crime and social disorder generally, the political will of the body politic for deep and radical change to address fundamental imbalances that cause poverty to begin with is a chance that times of plenty do not typically provide. In order to address severe polarization of wealth and ecological dangers, the moment for political mobilisation presented by a food and energy crisis must be seized.

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In the dawn of increasing economic insecurity and instability, high food price inflation, increasing unemployment rates and chaotic, dangerous crises, the globe has to question, even remind itself, of the priorities that define its well-being. In response to the necessity to establish new rules for our changing world, my thesis takes issue on two major steps that would provide a reasonable path for sustainable development: short run price control and social insurance policies targeting particularly the poor, and long run reappreciation of the central role of agriculture in our economies, both on the perspective of “thinking globally, but acting domestically”.

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With oil and food price shocks followed swiftly by a global economic slowdown, the well-being of society is at certainly at risk. But, despite the pressures, the situation presents an opportunity to see change for the better. With volatile energy and food prices the incentives are clear to move towards a more efficient and less wasteful society. With action from the bottom up and the top down, we could take huge strides forward in new energy options and food usage. For a secure and prosperous future, we may not have a choice.

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Scientific papers concerning ecology issues predict dire consequences for the water and food crisis people in different corners of the world are being confronted with. Governments’ attempts to make a change have failed because of numerous reasons and now, thanks to the negative media attention given to this subject in the last few years, a feeling of “Armageddon” has been established among people. And still there are people who fight daily for this cause and until now precisely these people have managed to make a difference. Great things have small beginnings…

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With the onset of various remedies related to the preservation of our natural sources of food and energy inclusive of the usage of thermal power plants for production of electricity, secluding the cultivating lands from the disasters of pollution created by the increasing human race and primarily allowing the populace to understand the risk of immense rapid growth of population which needs to be planned out with every individual, as it’s the common people who in return extinguishes the source of production of essentials owing to their requirements. For a society enveloped with secure amount of food and energy a structured pattern needs to be implemented mutually by the human race and the political society. Pressurizing the citizens of a lower band due to scarcity of essentials is not the solution, this hurdle is of a global stature and the maintenance of such issues requires effective participation of everybody and remarkable result too. Distinguishing each other on a political level is a prime NO for such issues, Common people can understand the need to perform but the masters to implement this need are the respective political families. Mutual correspondence and unbiased response from government houses are expected. Every strategy ought to be implemented by the populace along with the political groups rather than just faking out ideas and views whereas the common awaiting for the real change to happen for them, for their upcoming families. Its dialogued by an unknown – “ You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind “ describes the explanation to the contemporary dilemma.

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Can the society improve its well-being in a food and energy crisis: a wrong made question! Certainly, it can. It has always been able to do it. The appearance has always been a way to lie to ourselves and we are really good at it…

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The food and energy crisis depends on each other. The first makes the other like a chine reaction. It is important to understand people have a way to fix it. They have made this situation by their own and now they have to understand they are the only ones who can solve it. The main work they have to do is stop wasting food and other goods so the resources would be available for all not only for those who pay more to get this stuff and not use it. So the energy would be used fore more useful work.

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The current global food and energy crisis has turned out as one of the major challenges facing the world today. Food and energy crisis has become so preponderant that human existence is even being threatened by day. As the problem becomes more intractable and burgeoning, the world must still find out a dint of survival and escape. Africa seems to be at the center stage of this crisis.

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Currently the global is rushing at the higher speed towards the levels of food crisis and energy crisis, which will not be solved if not prudently dealt with jointly by governmental departments, NGOs, institutions, private sector and individual household. First huge initiatives need to be reversed to small, managed, simple processes. Second, toppling the underlying causes of these crises. Then all actors in the entire process brought together to the round table. Best practices from the past, known by their simplicity, small size should be adopted and promoted. More support should be offered to processes, which are sustainable.

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I am a graduate with a keen interest in Bio-Enviro issues. I would like to leverage these strengths with my people skills towards enhancing the footprint of the organization I work for and its clients

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With the growing population and growing requirements we have to rethink our consuming habits. Maybe my vision about vegetarianism, sharing, economy and alternative energy is not the best and easily accepted by most people, moreover, I don’t claim that any of them might be a panacea but I strongly believe that they could help us in struggling with the two emerging threatens of our century. As a foreword, let me cite Albert Einstein: "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."

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Generally, the growth of a country is based on its production and consumption of two vital needs of people – food and fuel. Due to environmental pollution by the combustion of fossil fuels, the concept of eco- friendly products such as bio-fuels is introduced. The production of bio-fuels from the feedstock resulted in the food crisis. Both natural factors and human activities are responsible for the present food-energy crisis in the world. The management of this crisis situation has to be done at global level as well as at national level. If politicians, researchers, scientists and general public join hands together, then, a solution to the problem can be arrived.

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Today’s food and energy crisis can be solved if all states cooperate. The remaining fossil resources should be equally distributed between all industrialized countries (Developed countries and Developing countries + newly industrialized countries-NIC).Underdeveloped countries should become main food-providers and should be given in exchange the support to develop renewable energies technologies. These countries should produce large amounts of natural and healthy food. Additionally, renewable energies technologies can also be developed independently by rich, developed countries.

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Society needs a new green revolution. The first ‘green revolution’ began in the mid twentieth century. It involved the application of fossil fuel based energy, machinery, and agricultural chemicals to dramatically increase food production. This fueled economic growth, that led for the most part to increased material wealth, which was equated with social wellbeing. The substantial negative environmental and social impacts of the first green revolution have become unacceptable. We need a second ‘green revolution’ driven at a grassroots level by local communities, supported and maintained at an institutional level by business, government and non-governmental organisations. This new ‘green revolution’ is not only possible – it is essential.

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The Green Revolution is powerful in eliminating global hunger, but the new Green Revolution seems to pursue only grain yield. Therefore, an overlook process, comprehensive recycling of the crop residues, was found and proved more effective and profitable. Here I described the conception and made predictions in China: If 25% more crop residues were used for fodder, it would double national cattle number, treble industry chain benefit, increase farmers’ family income, reduce CO2 emission and bring huge impact on the social-economic-environmental system. A new ecological Green Revolution is inspiring especially for the developing countries.

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While it is true that we are faced with a growing food and energy crisis, it is important that these issues are not seen, or dealt with, in isolation. These and other crises we face must rather be recognised as the symptoms of a rather deeper malaise, one anchored within the depths of the human condition. We live in ambiguous times. Shades of grey have always filled the cleft between black and white but today this discontinuity stands more as a chasm. It is the gradual closure of this uncertain interspace of moral standing that will guide us to a sustainable future.

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Living creatures are structures of high molecular complexity. As a result of the entropy law, any life needs continues flow of degradable energy and food to defend against chaos (Henning, 2005). The biosphere draws all energy from the solar radiation. Photosynthetic process converts solar radiation energy into storable chemical energy in plant food. The world population of 6.5 billion at a growth of 2.2% is expected to attain 13 billion by 2067. Present world food and energy crises makes one to ponder if human kind shall thrive any better coping with the pressure on limited food and energy resources.

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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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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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"Faced with today's food and energy crisis, how can society improve its well-being?" Background/Introduction to the problem on ground. Discussion of overdependence of food production on energy availability. Proffering solutions through diagnostic analysis of root causes of the problem: Societal value is seen as major cause of the imbalance in food and energy in the world which resulted to idea of biofuels, untamed numbers of automobiles, and lack of international cooperation. Lack of good strategies and policies by the government to cope with the teaming population of the world Recommendation of solutions to food crisis Conclusion

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Food and energy is the essential resource for economic development. But resource itself is not limitless. How to efficiently utilise current resources to boost economic development and to improve the living standard with the world growing population? My view is if resources reallocation is not realistic, then, we must consider use alternative way (technological innovation) to absorb natural resources more efficient. It needs Developed and developing countries joint together to solve this problem and thereby improving its well-being. And other important factors(e.g: education) which can contribute to our society improving its well-being.

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Humanity didn't climb to the top of the food chain with razor-sharp claws or lightning-fast legs, it climbed up with its opposable thumbs. Using those thumbs we created things to make our lives easier, improved our well-being. The one thing that never changed throughout the millennia is that there is only one way to solve our problems and it is through innovation. Knowing this, society should focus on providing stimulus and an optimal environment to technological progress.

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In a globalized world where human lives are taken as if they were just numbers in a graphic and the environment is treated as a unlimited source of resources, people have to wake up and lead the way to drastic changes. Never has the world seen so many catastrophes and disasters happening in such small period of time. Millions of people live in atrocious poverty and, still, most of the persons who had the fortune of having a decent and comfortable life do absolutely nothing to help them. Academics and researchers haven’t yet found the answer to these problems. How can we improve well-being in this chaotic situation?

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In the midst of a worldwide financial crisis, humanity staggers on. Where to, now? Our focus naturally shifts towards food and energy, as human development and survival are literally impossible without the both. What should we do? We, as citizens of the world, should definitely take matters in our own hands. We need to start acting, especially the more fortunate of us; we cannot keep sitting on our couches, watching mind-numbing TV shows in perpetual passivity as billions others suffer. If we only could change our mentality, along with our lifestyles, we could make our Earth a better place.

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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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Shifting the fundamentals of a Society, is that the answer to sustain or improve its well-being? The following essay demonstrates through the definition of the current energy and food crises, what is behind the concept of well-being and how it was shaped, influenced and ultimately entered into crisis. Society’s well-being is based on good social and environmental conditions, economic stability and a fine perception of them by its members. Energy-related factors are fundamental elements of today’s Society; should they be the only ones?

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In the last forty years, society has become more and more worried about sustaining its own welfare. Today almost nobody considers possible to become richer without causing great damage to the planet. But the problem is not how rich we are, but in what we are rich. Goods based on knowledge make us wealthy without polluting. We need to change our old ways, and search new solutions, trust progress again. If we take the right direction, we can achieve what we need and want.

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Faced with unprecedented global crises, can we find a way to turn mud to gold, and emerge better-connected, wiser as a species? Psychologists fear we are unhappier than ever; ecologists that our evolutionary baggage has led to an exploitative ethic: how can we escape into a future state of security and authentic happiness? Sustainability must be broadened to include all of the liberal arts. Progress is possible when disparate knowledge coalesces into wise action. We can observe this today in emerging approaches to urban living. Consilience among disciplines will reinforce old notions of improvement with new urgency and wide-ranging synergies.

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Today’s food and energy crisis has threatened sustainable development for human life and the environment. While human needs are met in the present, it is not with comfortable ease because of rising costs of energy resources such as oil and rising food prices. This situation paints a bleak future for sustainable development. High oil and food prices mean a higher cost of living. With a higher cost of living comes a reduction on leisure spending like holidays abroad, spending on clothing is also reduced such that major retailers are at risk of experiencing losses, and will therefore have to make redundant some of their employees to meet rising costs of stock.

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Let us presume the emergence of a new country with the size and energy demands of either the United States or China onto the planet every five years. What do we think might happen to the world’s food and energy needs and the environment? This is the question my essay begins with, with the aim of drawing our minds to the potential abyss we may find ourselves in if we do not take hard and fast decisions to solve the crisis now.

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Research, in its various ramifications, has been viewed continuously as an imperative for tangible achievement and progress, and for unshackling humanity and societies from the tentacles of hunger and energy deprivation. Our future in that regards depends on research. There is universal convertibility of food to energy and vice-versa. Food is nothing more than a chemically stored energy for human and animal use, or fuel production. And we have to delicately balance this convertibility. Appropriate and prioritized researches, locally and globally, have the potential to ensure this is achieved with attendance benefit to villages, societies and the global village.

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During the late century the problem of resources fading has become more acute, considering that the globe population and the use of prime resources continues to grow. The expectations of each individual are actually higher than ever! You may think this is an exaggeration, but have you ever considered taking the bus or the subway on your way to work instead of driving or even taking a taxi! As far as I am concerned, it is up to us! After all we are part of the problem as well as it is in our strength to make a difference.

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Asking the right question can trump looking for the right answer. What do we mean by ‘society improving its well-being’? Do we really mean to attribute agency primarily to society, and thereby subordinate individuals as mere epiphenomena? Who, as it turns out, begot whom? This first conception of the problem, as it happens, underlies the vast majority of social initiatives, that attempt to change the world from outside in. I outline a different prospective; improvements in society proceed from improvements in individual selves. Paradoxically, it is when we focus our energy inwards that we inspire the greatest change.

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If a future of energy scarcity and food shortages is to be avoided, society must be reshaped into one that is more conducive to an improvement in well-being. Proposed is a single piece of legislation which allocates land for food production to every citizen. The population becomes self-sufficient. The law can increase society’s well-being in terms of food, energy and fulfilment. It would increase food production and improve the nutritional intake of the population. It would significantly cut energy usage and improve energy equity, and it would result in a more rewarding existence based on interpersonal relationships.

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I thought a lot about different answers to this question, some more realistic than others. I thought about exploiting other planets, use their recourses when our on have come to an end. I thought about using the power in the beams of the sun in a more efficient way, since that is a source of energy that probably not will end during the human era. I thought about gen modify animals and plants, make them more sustainable to the changes of the climate. Enable them to live and grow in the hot desert and at the cold mountains.

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There are two major concerns about the global food and energy crisis. One is to secure enough food for the world’s booming population in the future while the other is to distribute food and energy resources more evenly throughout the world. The former issue requires the greater investment in scientific research through public and private funding and greater participations from scientists. The latter issue involves a drastic change in the mindsets of people in all levels of society. I believe that through working globally as one and harnessing the potentials of science and technology, we can improve society’s long-term well-being.

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More and more these days, the synergy of food and energy crises is creating a massif between achieving the world’s vital goals. Considering the fact that climatic conditions have been in their most erratic state in recent times, the lands have predictably gone less fertile, the governments less responsive, an escalating world population, the market duet of supply and demand not ringing in near close harmonization, a marked increase in prices has always been coming. Governments? New policies? Farmers? NGOs? Where is help coming from?

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The gist of the argument is that the history of humanity provides a sort of meta-model that can, if properly and without bias applied, be used to understand a great many other models that're currently perpetuated in isolation. People throughout the world need to be more aware of the unprecedented threat, of the challenges that now face us. Without dwelling much on the science, I'm stating a few facts if only to underscore the urgency of our task. The surest way to effectively combat the aggravation of this impasse is with a synchronized global stimulus, implemented into a green design.

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When everything goes wrong - we call it crisis. When stock markets crash and currency bubbles - we know it as financial crisis. When ecosystem of the Earth is being affected by humans - it is undoubtedly environmental crisis. When conflicts on high levels happen - it is often stated that cabinet crisis has occurred. Crisis appears before us as some mythical creature: enormous, horrible, and based not on official facts, but usually on talks and gossips.

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Today the world faces difficult challenges, the society struggle with food and energy crisis, the biggest one in the world’s modern history and causing about 2 billion people feel the scarcity of these commodities on their own skins. Therefore urgent action should be taken by the international community in order to turn the policies into agriculture and energy friendly. This action will require common efforts of the international community and only comprehensive approach consisting of various measures can lead to achieving the goal that is combating widespread hunger and reliance on traditional sources of energy.

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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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Sustainable development is untenable with out sustainable source of food and energy. Is necessary substitute food aid in developing country to support produce in this countries. Expand organic agriculture in world wide, for stability supply food it have best presumption in compare with a convention agriculture and agriculture a grow genetic modified. Consumption of energy in her different form continuously growth. The only way is save energy, rising the living standard must by going together with saving energy. Possibility is that directive will more pressure on people and company saving energy like it Is in car industry with exhaust emissions.

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Nowadays prosperity is not a matter of new technology and expanding markets. The emerging crises have displayed how unlikely any further advancement is in its popular sense. Under Consumerism we have lost our individuality to the identities offered by the market the same way others lost theirs to the one granted by the Party under Communism. Consumerism has modified our aspirations and set our goals, but the improvement of well-being cannot be achieved within the meaning put forward by our age of brands and false identities. To really progress without the bountiful resources our predecessors had at their disposal, we need to reinvent the concept of well-being itself.

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If wealthy societies would chose to prioritise on the increase of well-being by stimulating growth of opportunities to recreate, develop human potential and spiritual satisfaction, they succeed in different ways. Besides the improvement in wellbeing of their citizens, they would also enable less wealthy societies to reach a situation of continued surplus. Moreover, by decoupling wealth and well-being, humankind might develop a strategy which safeguards a liveable planet while optimizing the well-being of our species. Instead of adapting our environment, it is the power to innovate our own adaptability that will have to be enhanced.

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In today’s world, society is faced with a number of challenges. Homelessness, illness, poverty, unemployment and crime are only a few. In order to provide and help individuals lead a healthy lifestyle it is necessary for society to take the general needs of the individuals that compose the society itself into account and try and eliminate the challenges or resulting outcomes which negatively impact such as the ones listed above. This essay will aim to answer the question as to how society could improve its well-being, while facing the crisis of food and energy as it currently is the case.

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In the face of environmental degradation, social divisiveness and inequity, the natural tendency of organisms is to go back to the basic principles of nature. We need to empower and recognize the interdependence of the capitals that built our societies. Symbiosis over competition in attaining stability. The state of social well-being is the state of equilibrium, and equilibrium is stability. Unless we recognize that we are all equal, like whales recognizing the bacteria in their stomach that helps them with digestion, we will never attain well-being.

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The interlinked food, energy and economic crises necessitate action at multiple levels. The transition to sustainability is urgent, but is it possible? Food and energy production has hitherto focused on enhancing productivity, often addressing the issues strictly in terms of profitability. Ecological and socio-cultural aspects of food production and natural resource management have gained momentum, under the pressure of accelerated ecosystem degradation and deterioration of bio-cultural diversity. Society now needs to redefine its responsibilities and realize this transition to sustainability, towards a world that allows humanity as a whole to maintain and extend quality throughout the diversity of life.

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One of the alarming characteristics of today’s world is the food and energy crisis. The Western approach, which has great impact on the entire word, turns out to have many negative consequences. However, a new way of thinking, combined with political will and technological advances, could direct the society to a future where environmentally friendly solutions and people's comfort would be not only a distant vision, but become the reality. As a politically influential society, we are responsible for rethinking our values, levels of consumption, and an effective cooperation with those in need, which would, in the end, benefit everyone.

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A crisis is a social phenomenon affecting the lives of many people, and so is often considered too big a force to be dealt with by individuals. However, the government often cannot react quickly enough or address all facets of the crisis, where socially involved people can form active networks and achieve tangible progress. One way is to use the model of the European Commission town twinning program to connect volunteer organizations from across the globe. After the initial contact is made possible, they can team up and address issues both locally and globally, with some, mostly diplomatic, help from their governments.

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Where there is crisis, there is an opportunity for change. But this requires reforms on a bigger scale, and the EU makes this much easier. Governments should play an active role in the economy and pacify employers and trade unions. It should also invest heavily in production and scientific research. Despite higher taxes, this can lead to greater equity and growth. Large companies also have a responsibility to their community – they can take care of small parks and leave a sign indicating that they are responsible. This is the advertisement of the future, both effective and beneficial to the community.

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The problem humanity is faced today with is just part of a vicious circle which is hard to pinpoint in order to find a solution but it isn’t impossible. First of all, we can all agree on the fact that throughout the years humanity has searched ways to improve its well being to satisfy most of the needs faster and easier by creating or diversifying new or already existing activities. Mainly, this is the base of economy: satisfying needs and creating means to do so. But is also well- known that needs are endless while the resources to satisfy them are limited. This is the reason why we have ended up in the situation we are nowadays in: the race to improve our well being by fulfilling many and diverse needs while ignoring the effects we have created along the way.

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The lack of unity in our society is the root cause of today’s food and energy crisis. Worldwide structures are based on blind competition and self-interest which is universally harmful in the long run. Being selfish is a natural state of being but people have to realize that mutual benefit is the most selfish goal. We waste valuable potential by fighting each other – it is now time to come together and join the efforts. Society is susceptible to change and if we eliminate our narrow-minded attitude, we can fight the sore problems of today.

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Although there are more solutions to this upcoming crisis, not all of them are as good as the next. We are used to a certain way of live, and it is not possible to give this up all at once. It is possible, however, to change our way of live so we use less energy and less food. Therefore, what should be done is making the present and the future leaders aware of the problems they will have to face if they do not start thinking now on how to solve the problems.

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This is a time of concern that human activities and mistaken view of nature and earth resources as infinite, are now affecting society and entire ecosystem in the form of food and energy crisis. The current food and energy crisis is an indication that earth and its resources are not finite. We therefore need to retrace our steps and embrace act of sustainability. We must be able to strike a balance between nature and culture, society and environment, economy and consumption, supply and demand and different scales of technologies. It is also a time to act and improve society’s well-being.

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The concept of the Energy Cascade is motivated by the requirement to enhance the life and efficiency of existing energy technology. The link between the Food and Energy Crises is considered. The limitations of present nuclear power motivate the need for a hybrid system, a concept that has been recently proposed elsewhere. This hybrid system can form the base of a cascaded set of power plants, which benefit from mutual synergy, so that efficiency is maximised. Circumvention of the Energy Crisis requires a multi-pronged attack, in which this concept can play a crucial role and maximise societal well-being. i

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Starting a university in a country with a food crisis will entice people from around the world because they get a cheap education; the university will also educate native students. The students will help the country to build up their economy and educate its citizens. Money and educated people will solve the food crisis in the particular country. The students at these schools in less developed countries will study and do research about the energy and the food crisis, Particulate to find an alternative fuel. Money the university generates has to be spent to minimize the food and energy crisis.

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Society can improve its well-being by adopting an anti-consumerist lifestyle. Nowadays people are so immersed in immediate gratification that they have forgotten to think about the future of the planet. In our consumerist society we are convinced that we should identify ourselves with the purchases we make. However, the theory of eco-localism and the concept of “voluntary simplicity” emerge as a ray of light to the painful reality of a food and energy crisis. People should realize that the quality of their lives is not measured by the quantity of their purchases, that life must be enjoyed and not bought.

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The recent food and energy crisis highlighted the paradox of high demand and resource shortages that represent the basis of an apparently modern, globalised society, but a society that is in many ways simply stuck in an old paradigm. We need strong global solutions and strategies, such as increasing the availability and use of alternative energy resources, investing in large-scale research and development, and implementing specific measures in fragile, underdeveloped areas. The food and energy crisis represents a wake-up call to action on all these fronts, for the long-term benefit of all society.

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The world is going to deal with a lot of problems like food and energy crisis in the next decades. Especially the financial difference between industrial countries and the third world arouses challenges. In a globalised world this is going to have a strong impact on the whole society everywhere. The solution is already given in the humans knowledge. They basically have to change their mind and use the technology they have. The coming back to old values like humanity and charity is the answer to the improving of the well-being of our society.

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The earth is the only planet in the entire universe that contains the necessary elements for the life, and intelligent form of life. I think that these characteristics have wasted. In one hand, in many countries, a human's life has no value. In the other hand, intelligence has become into a terrible weapon to cause several consequences to many people. There are much people, who controls very big companies that want to obtain money (a human's invention) and they don't matter others humans, they don't matter the human's intelligence. So, the money is the main reason to exploit other persons. But it is not enough. The companies always want to win more and more money. They never get tired to win money. And my question is: Why anybody do something? It is difficult to response that question. The companies have a big influence in many countries. In the poorest countries is easy to bribe politicians, and in the rich countries they sponsor many social events and investigations in order to obtain benefits and much money. The food and the energy crisis are motivated for those companies.

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In my essay I have focused on possible “defensive” attitudes towards the crisis. I am also discussing some of the proposed technical solutions to the situation. In the concluding part of the text I propose a solution that is based not only on technologies of the 21st century, but also and mainly on sociological factors such as altering the average scale of values in favour of the nature. My solution is meant as a vital help to gain time for developing and improving the present promising but not optimal state of the technical solution of the problem.

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Let us find out first causes of the crisis then how we can solve them.Looking at them,my mind hits first on Africa because it is a continent that is adversely affected. On my point of view, poor leadership is the chief cause of this and unequal distribution of resourses .Corruption is prevalent in Africa and when it comes to energy, they lack proper machinery to exploit it,then over reliance on imported goods becomes the option.This is not to say that other continents are not victims.They usually concentrate too much on industries and neglect agricultural sector.

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How hard is to understand and confront global warming, the food and energy crisis? Facing that is difficult because you have to sacrifice a few things. This essay tells that is important to understand that people have to sacrifice the way they live their life and their ideas about life when they face the crisis. But that is the point: everybody, and first of all those who rule the economy have to understand and face this situation. And then change it.

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The world faces two key shortages-sustainable food and sustainable energy. This can be reduced to a shortage of fresh water and an inability to utilise the power of the sun to keep climate change in check. This proposal describes simple technology already available to us, using PVC pipes to address both issues together, an idea that can be repeated at any scale borrowing natures own solutions.

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My main goal in this essay is to overlook at the elements of life starting with the creation of Earth and mirroring the achievements that Mankind, the most advanced species known in the known universe, has accomplished during the harshest conditions, and how changes could be made. From the start of civilization with agriculture to our overuse of modern technology, I will be focusing on our most powerful attribute: our Brain. We were born with the gift of thought and emotions and that is what drove me into helping find a solution to the Food and Energy Crisis.

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There is enough food and energy to fulfil everyone’s needs, but due to poverty and unsustainable energy use the world is facing food and energy crises. This essay proposes that the crises can be solved by simultaneously fighting poverty and developing a sustainable energy system. This can be achieved through the adoption of different policy instruments that transfer the responsibility to change from individuals and corporations to the authorities. Creating the political will to make this change is, so far, the largest challenge the World Community has faced in this recently globalized world.

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The essay maintains the idea that faced with a food and energy crisis society can improve its well-being by a change in attitude towards world and getting its priorities right. Selfishness must give its place to benevolence and concern, unanimity and cooperation must be established. Once united humanity must bring in the reforms needed taking all alternative sources of energy and food into account.Knowledge is of vital importance for determining the problems and finding the solutions. People must realize their strength and responsibility.We are answerable to the generations before and after us for the fate of our world.

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The food and energy crisis has certainly revealed a number of critical truths, one of which is our limited capacity to anticipate future eco-behavioural trends as a global community. Another is the questionable capacity of humans to form a global team towards a truly collective sense of wellbeing. In a bruising underestimation of the goodness of new agro and energy technologies, a sense of complacency in an era of wealth and abundance may be blamed. Improving our wellbeing has been short circuited by the poor support of relevant technologies, namely by leading nations and decision makers from the ground up.

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The recent food and energy crisis has been haunting the entire world but its effects are far more pronounced in the developing countries. It is called per capita energy consumption. It badly jolted the developing countries. My country is a poor country. The well being of a society lies in the political situation of a given country. The government should be facilitating such researches to cope with food crisis. Rising oil prices forced many countries to work for bio fuels to ensure energy security to their countries. In a way to overcome energy crisis a new crisis was fueled. The strategies that societies and countries must adopt to overcome food and energy crisis: general public awareness, technological advancements, solar and wind energy, and Investment in power generating fields.

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The human race has been facing a food and energy crisis, during its entire existence. As the world has developed, the population has grown. Today we are more advanced than ever but are also threatening the earth and thereby threatening ourselves. The main issue today is the size of our population. We must take responsibility by solving our own problems and the key is a higher rate of self sufficiency. By using oil, extracted from algae, every farm and country has a chance to grow their own energy, which will reduce conflicts and turbulence in the world.

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The author takes a complex view of the contemporary food and energy crises, identifying its causes across a number of segments of current lifestyles. He, as one of the culprits recognizes poor husbandry with local resources. The crises stem from individualization of our ways of life shaped by modern technologies. The author sees the solution to the crises not only in saving and economizing ever insufficient natural resources; he claims that humanity ought to be educated towards higher ecological consciousness. In this light, the author calls upon a new ethics of relations with nature and higher levels of solidarity between people.

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The number of world’s hunger has been increased in recent years. The soaring agricultural commodity prices are caused by complex driving forces which derive from both supply-side and demand-side of the global market. A common approach is needed from developing and developed countries as well. The world energy and food crisis is correlated tightly due to the bioenergy production process driven by some countries. Instead of utilization of first generation biofuels the research and development of second and third generation has to be supported as these do not influence the food supply chain.

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In the last few years we have seen the most impressive increases of oil and food prices---implying a combinative hit to our human lives. However, the challenge of energy and food crisis is not a new phenomenon; they are always there and now burst out as an unprecedented speed and strength, which drives a great question to men: can we survive in this gravest crisis and find a way to improve our well-beings? Is it an opportunity for us to change, to consider our future generations, to choose a different model to develop instead of “growth”.

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The term “world crisis” is closely related to the individual, whether it concerns food or energy crisis. An effort to raise awareness of the energy and food problems (and solutions) demands involvement of every one of us. Economic and political structures are considered as a “sole culprit”, but at the same time as the liberator, since they left us space to live in an imaginary world of consumption. The newest technologies and knowledge cannot provide a unique and final solution; solving the crisis is a long-lasting process that requires setting of new priorities and changing of our life philosophy.

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Reducing the wasting of food and energy resources and environmental pollution, a push for technological innovation and use of renewable resources, development of transnational networks, self-sufficiency in food and energy production are the rational options for addressing the food and energy crisis. The implementation of those principles could be greatly facilitated by the widespread promotion of different forms of cooperation, the acknowledgement of the interconnectedness of the food and energy issues and the need for the symbiosis of different economic, social, environmental and technological solutions and open-mindedness towards different ideas that are the steps towards improving society’s well-being.

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As most of the people seek to ensure their well-being by having money, health and love, most of the countries seek to achieve different objectives, which are highlighted and measured using several quantitative and qualitative standards or requirements. People fight to build wind turbines, discover new technologies for green house gas emission reduction, exploit thermal water and waves for energy or bring oil and gas from across the oceans, but they hit a concrete wall when having to build partnerships because of the rigidity and autocracy of the systems and because of the political involvement.

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The crises we face can be tackled if we learn from our past successes, while avoiding the temptation to oversimplify the problems of sustainable development. Diversity, and the unequal distribution of resources on the planet, if approached correctly, can be a boon to progress, not an obstacle.

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Has ‘sustainable development’ gotten lost? With selfish distribution in both sectors, and energy demand to double, underdeveloped societies require ethical guidance. Nations should decrease dependency on imports, and make responsible energy choices. Failure to link solutions to quality of life and living standards can be addressed, firstly via achieving global consensus, commitment, investment and ensuring youths become innovative. Secondly, protecting the vulnerable, removing vested interests and demanding answers will nurture social justice and equity. Health promotion principles should inform any strategy. We face a crisis of culture. Ongoing debate and action allows a humanitarian and sustainable way forward for society.

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Incremental improvement and reacting to problems as they arise is no strategy for success in the face of a fundamental sustainability challenge. A universal and intuitive definition of sustainability at the core of cultural consciousness is necessary to ensuring resilience, but it must be defined negatively by the identification of natural constraints within which society must operate. Only mainstream confrontation with the possibility of failing to meet the global sustainability challenge, and widespread contemplation of the implications of such a failure can ensure the development and fundamental incorporation of such a definition.

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Our increasing need for food and energy creates competition for land and resources, whereby the growth in production of energy is inhibiting the inability to grow sufficient food for the global population. By not only changing our habits as consumers, and the focus and meaning behind production, but by reassessing our universal interests according to morality, human activity can be redirected from an individualist lifestyle to a communal one, to reinvent societal priorities. By recognising our interconnectedness with the ecosystem, rejecting over-industrialisation of food production, promoting low-carbon communities, and regaining agricultural independence, global food security can be restored.

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Food and energy problems are in many ways inter-related therefore the world cannot solve its food problem without first solving its energy problem. The only option left is to seek and find synergistic solutions to both crises. But in doing so, mankind cannot afford to compromise the environment and the future of those generations coming after us. The way forward therefore lies in a myriad of solutions which include majorly applying the timeless principles of sustainable agriculture while also cutting the demand for unsustainable fuels and finding alternative and more reliable energy sources, among other things. Herein lies the challenge.

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The society struggling with a food and energy crisis has to pull back from idolizing the economical growth. In order to improve the material as well as intellectual well-being in the world, we have to learn to save and make compromises. The change should start with a partial decentralization of food and energy supplies securing a local minimal safeguard net. This must be accompanied by massive improvements in healthy and thrifty lifestyle education and diversification research. Finally, the transformation would not be complete without an attitude change – surging motivation to cooperate on a common dream.

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Nature no longer can fix society's problems. Hiding does not lead to benefits. Wrong choices can be altered. People will have to think about what they see and think carefully if they want to improve. Society can prosper even with current resources. Helping other helps each other.

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Food and energy are basic commodities, essential for peoples’ lives. Their growing shortage, however, requires people and governments to be more adaptive. There are three ways to tackle with the crises: expand agricultural production by making it more commercial, invest more in science in terms of increasing research and the use of GM crops and finally, strictly regulate domestic production of bio fuel. Also, innovation has already brought us efficient wind and sun energy. Yet, their use is not promoted enough. Society’s well-being can be improved by politicians and their policy-makers taking the necessary steps.

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A century back, man was on the highway of development and had never imagined to fall so weak in front of a food and energy crisis. Crippled in front of a crisis, fuelled by man`s own greed, the situation is rapidly slipping out of our hands. Trying to break the link between energy and food is a long lost fight; therefore, today we are working to find alternative renewable resources to reduce our oil dependence and methods to increase food supply and adequate unbiased distribution of food. It is also important to work on fighting poverty and thus, increase the purchasing power of the most affected countries.

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The food and energy crisis is but a manifestation that something in the system has gone wrong. At the very core of this is the importance to understand the concept of net energy, that energy expended in extracting further energy has to be many times more otherwise the system sustained by that energy will in due time collapse. If one applies this to agriculture the energy input of oil has to be changed into something else because oil's net energy steadily decreases.

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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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Controlling population growth is the key factor in overcoming food and energy shortages. Without it, any improvements in overall supply will be absorbed by another boom in population, therefore leaving the problem unresolved. There are still opportunities to increase the supply of food, clean water and renewable energy, while minimizing waste and the demand for energy. Sustainable sources of food and energy are also essential to avoid future catastrophic collapses in supply that will result if problems of global warming cannot be overcome. These goals are achievable, if the political will can be found.

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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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In January the UK government launched the campaign ‘Change 4 life’. The accompanying slogan reads: “Eat well, Move more, Live longer”. The campaign, aimed at children and parents, highlights an attempt to tackle obesity, diabetes and heart disease; often considered to be some of the most serious public health problems in the rich world. These issues can be seen as a by-product of an affluent society, for whom energy is abundant and food comes fast. Whilst the UK does not reflect global society, it does represent trends in the rich Global North: a model that many ‘developing countries’ are being forced to replicate.

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Societal well-being can be improved by putting more time and energy into building community and developing organizational relationships across sectors, supply chains and nations. Overcoming the challenge of a food and energy crisis can be accomplished by focusing on transforming our societal systems (e.g. economic, social, education, healthcare, energy and food systems…etc) into ones that create an enabling environment for people to meet their fundamental needs while not simultaneously degrading the environment. We can learn from the microcosm of Cuba’s food and energy crisis and how they worked together to manage it.

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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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In modern world we have to face different problems like food, energy and economic crisis. I think it is a question of attitude, whether exists lack of food or finances to afford it. Attitude is the worst problem, because attitude is something we can alter very slowly, sometimes never. Many people in developing countries do not just have enough money to buy food and necessities. Knowledge, abilities and technology should be distributed, so that they could manage better. To alleviate energy crisis alternative fuel and energy resources should be used-also a question of attitude and lifestyle.

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It’s sad, but food and energy crisis affects the modest and small people especially, people that think well-being as being heaven, and that isn’t right here, on Earth. The well-being of the society means more than I could explain in 1000 words because the notion is very complex and has different deffinitions. If I ask 10 different persons about what well-being means to them, I would discover at least 7 different answers. But if I ask 10 different people about society well-being, I think only 3 or 4 of them could give an aswer.

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“Well-being is only real when shared“ is the core idea of this essay. Food and energy crisis as a comprehensive problem requires complex solutions based on personal ethics, developed in creative community environment, applied in municipal, regional and national policy and shared by global population. All the scales are entities, where we can find problems as well as solutions. Taking a journey across several levels of human spatial organization, I emphasize the need of self-sufficiency and sharing as complementary principles. My message is to find a balance between these princples taking into consideration subsidiarity as a key concept.

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My essay is about reducing food and energy crises through decreasing peoples comfort and increasing their physical activity. I will explain how in my opinion the food and energy crises are caused by lack of physical exercise, inclining to obesity and getting too comfortable in our everyday lives.

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In this century we are faced with today food and energy crisis. Humanity isn’t aware of the things they face and what’s at stake. We need innovative ideas to end these crises, or at least find solutions to reduce them rather than increase them. Of course it is easier said than done, and even if we have solutions this will not be easy to implement due to several factors. But if we think that there wouldn’t be any problem of political boundaries, industrial, religious or economics … the question now is, “how can we change this?”.

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The food and energy crisis is global. The solution is also global. Carbon-dioxide emissions, climate change, global warming are words on the lips of every informed person on this world. There are more than words. There are real global problems. Can we find solutions or these problems are here to stay? There is no limit to innovation, research and development so we can find the answer to all our problems by working together for a better future.

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The energy and food crisis demand our attention as millions of peoples’ lives and standards of living are at stake. The connection between the energy and food crisis is clear and there are several steps which can be taken to alleviate the crisis. These steps include shifting production of biofuels away from food crops, utilizing waste for biofuel production, spreading sustainable agriculture techniques and increasing research. It is imperative these steps be taken sooner rather than later as the crisis will only be exacerbated with time.

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“America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.”

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The energy crisis and the food crisis are two contemporan problems with what humans need to face in an important moment of their evoloution. The energy crisis has very strong bounds with the food crisis, because once the biodiesel carburant has been discovered and wich is made out of rape, this fenomenon of cultureising the rape at a global scale, less cereals were planted, plants that are necessary breeding the animals, that constitue the main part of our food. Theese two problems will be fixed with the help of scientific persons, mass-media, gouvernamental institutes, and teachers wich will teach children in schools how to combate theese problems, the children being our tomorrow’s future.

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At this moment in time where the economy is in turmoil and global warming is impossible to ignore, there is opportunity for change. A crisis can bring people together and give birth to new ways of living and inventive solutions. People need to be encouraged and rewarded for making conscious choices. While slowing down and working less we could all benefit from the riches of a simpler life. Improvements could include rationing and community activities which would bring people together and generate produce locally for everyone’s benefit. Key to improve society’s well-being is a collective willing for change.

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This essay is trying to comprehend today’s situation. It shows the complexity of that situation on the recent examples of the oil prices development and the global warming problem. The author thinks based on those too topics that making serious statement and policy is too controversial and he sees living on the edge as just another part of human nature. Thus the only way of improving society’s well-being is changing in people’s thinking which could prevent wasting important resources.

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Nowadays the human being is immersed in several kinds of crises, but the most important ones are the followings: the global food and energy crises. The origin of these crises is mainly the greediness and ruthless consumerism of the human being. The consequences are millions of people starving to death and an increase of the level of pollution making the world an inhabitable one. In order to solution this present situation, governments will have to invest, especially, in education and in clean energies. However, the solution is not only in the hands of the authorities but also the citizens play a very important role in this matter.

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We live into the world are fulling of different problems and troubles. Every day we think about trifles which seem very important for our life. And we even don’t fall to thinking that exist situations which are worst than ours. For example a lot of people in the all world every day suffer of hunger. In the Haiti people eat biscuits which are cooked from yellow clay, salt and vegetable fat. It tastes of fat, suck the moisture out of the mouth and leave behind an aftertaste of dirt. It often causes diarrhea. But for these people it’s almost only source of food, because now staple foods is unaffordable for poor people. And after these facts people become understand that their own problems are nothing in comparison with this terrible reality.

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Food and energy crises are inter-related and any attempt to increase energy production through biofuels or other forms of energy at the expense of food exacerbates the already existing food crisis. Energy management, pursuance of green energy, interest in biotechnology to produce GM foods and technological innovation of products which do not depend on oil could be the way forward.

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Society has changed and everything that is not effective should be abandoned. New approaches define future and mankind has to find a way how to survive. The main theme of this essay is focused on broad outsourcing and new embracement of outsourced society and state as institutions of international environment. The whole idea is defined on prediction of individuality and independence.

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“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread” (Mahatma Gandhi) There are 963 million undernourished people in the world today. That means one in nearly seven people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life. Hunger and malnutrition are in fact the number one risk to the health worldwide — greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. The solution of Earths problems can be solved only if we really want to do this and if we understand that after us will come our children, and the children of our children that will need to live as good as we lived today.

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It is very important for us to realize that there are solutions to all the global problems that mankind faces today, including the food and energy crisis. But a change is needed in the way that we treat these issues. A healthy approach is to analyze the problem in depth, separate the real situation from the created “myths”, identify its causes and act towards the eradication of its roots. The solutions will be, most likely, provided by the technological advance, that can only be achieved through the cooperation of scientists all over the globe.

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Society is an umbrella term used to capture a great many of individuals - us. We need to know and face the real causes – greed and ignorance – behind today’s concrete problems in order to handle this home-made crisis and to improve our well-being. Every single one of us has to take on responsibility for improvement: we need to work up the courage to face ourselves and change our attitudes, namely via gaining true knowledge and maturing mindfulness. This process will ultimately tear out the roots of the crisis and thus improve our well-being.

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I usually have the comment that the most of sustainable solutions are not else than looking back the past. To observe the previous systems of human lives before the first industrial revolution can help us to find the way out current crisis. I was thinking of our past and I found two edifying details: more local and ethical attitude. Locality is needed to produce energy and food; ethical attitude is needed to implement these old-new productions in a fair way.

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Today's food and energy crisis did not originate from scarcity or shortages as we have plenty of food and energy to distribute around the globe. Humans have abilities to tackle the problem; and yet the biggest obstacle for the solution to be applied is created from humans themselves. Every social actor: the governments, private sectors, international organizations and individuals do not fully comprehend the seriousness and the core reason of the global problem at hand. Firm will and commitment combined by diligent actions first to solve environmental problem causing food and energy crisis is the only exit.

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The aim of this essey is finding some ways to face the food and energy crisis day by day, in our daily routine. This can be made changing our way of living, not as an individual but as a comunity. The web is a very good instrument to achieve all this. It is an invitation to look at ourself and at our society in a different way. All together we can fill this huge gap between who has everything and who has nothing.

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A politically-incorrect view that questions the green pressure. I tried to resist writing nice-looking green essay providing simple answers to complex problems. I tried to track down the roots of current crisis and offer a difficult, yet possible solution to society‘s problems. This essay tries to avoid common buzzwords and easy ideals which do not work in practice. We should look into the history to learn from it and avoid making same mistakes over and over again. We should educate people well to create individuals that will take their own path rather than saying what is best for them.

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In this essay I survey the solutions provided by policy makers on the left and right of the political spectrum. I argue that the globalised economy is basically sound, but that some simple pragmatic intervention is needed in order to promote continued growth and to prevent price spikes and shortages.

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We are in crisis! And there is not just one crisis, there are a few of them and even more are in making. This text deals with the causes and possible solutions of recent major crises - ecological, energetic and food crises which are closely connected together. Though one might get impression that our world is drowning in every possible crisis which solving is impossible, contrary is the case. Only diligence, cooperation, felowship and emphasis on education, research and new techmologies is the straw we should catch at in order to clear all present and future crisis.

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The notion of well-being is often shortened to its aspect of material achievement or financial security. Factually, it is that aspect that is being putted in question by the question of resources shortage. This issue can be partially addressed by the means of efficiency in energetic consumption and better conceived technologies, but that will by far not be enough. The individuals have to change their lifestyles drastically. In some extend, it could be perceived as a loss of one’s well-being, but in fact, even if it is difficult, making choices in one’s life more consciously may bring more satisfaction in the long run.

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Today is a time when the destiny of the human civilization is being determined. There have been enough finger-pointing on why the world is now facing a crisis. The important question is, where do we go from here? Certainly, the answers include the political will of governments to responsibly regulate businesses and establish policies to safeguard the affordability of basic commodities like food and fuel. It also includes cooperation among governments. The values of sustainable development are best appreciated at these crucial times, more than ever. Finally, every individual must do his share to improve his own well-being.

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With the onset of various remedies related to the preservation of our natural sources of food and energy inclusive of the usage of thermal power plants for production of electricity, secluding the cultivating lands from the disasters of pollution created by the increasing human race and primarily allowing the populace to understand the risk of immense rapid growth of population which needs to be planned out with every individual, as it’s the common people who in return extinguishes the source of production of essentials owing to their requirements. For a society enveloped with secure amount of food and energy a structured pattern needs to be implemented mutually by the human race and the political society. Pressurizing the citizens of a lower band due to scarcity of essentials is not the solution, this hurdle is of a global stature and the maintenance of such issues requires effective participation of everybody and remarkable result too. Distinguishing each other on a political level is a prime NO for such issues, Common people can understand the need to perform but the masters to implement this need are the respective political families. Mutual correspondence and unbiased response from government houses are expected. Every strategy ought to be implemented by the populace along with the political groups rather than just faking out ideas and views whereas the common awaiting for the real change to happen for them, for their upcoming families. Its dialogued by an unknown – “ You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind “ describes the explanation to the contemporary dilemma.

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In contemporary society, the public generally maintain strong ideological values. But as resources such as food and energy are used up, the future of civilization appears increasingly bleak. However it isn’t too late for society to make changes, if the issues are addressed now. Commercially speaking it could be argued that although food resources are becoming increasingly difficult to replenish and non-renewable energy sources are beginning to run out, at the rate society blindly keeps manufacturing in ways that waste and use up, implies we are not yet at crisis point, “The energy crisis is a snare and a delusion. Worse, it’s a hustle.’’ Antony C. Sutton, economist and historian, from article ‘The food and energy crisis, fiction or reality?’ This is an opinion which will need to be challenged if society is to be successful in improving its well being. Energy consumption from transport from 1980 to 2006 has increased for using the capacity of 37 million tonnes of oil to using 60 million tonnes in the space of 26 years; Statistics are from UK defra e-digest environment statistics online. So it emerges that population growth and the demands of living increase vehicle usage, and as the pollution from carbon emissions pollute the atmosphere, it alters of makes growing food a social nightmare.

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In the following essay I introduced the problem with food and energy and I tried to identify the main problems associated with this issue today. Moreover, I outlined how to cope with it in order to improve society’s well-being. Because the theme is a rather complex one I also presented a complex set of ideas. I demonstrated new types of alternative resources of energy and some ways of solving food problems in poor countries. Finally, I put food and energy zero-hour in the context with other crises and highlighted that what we see as a crisis is just the tip of the iceberg – the problem is much deeper and complicated – and much more urgent to solve.

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Nowadays, our society is facing a food and energy crisis. The main reason for this is high prices. For food crisis, society can improve the living standards of the population, by discovering a process of “feeding smarter”. For being energy independent and meeting immediate energy requirements, society should promote the development of renewable and pollution free energy forms, “green energy” and a green transportation system. Thus, society has to establish the notion of worth-living development, with main elements the reduction of competitiveness and desire of maximum profiteering in the areas of food and energy production.

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When we approach global topics (of hunger, climate change, energy,and many more) we should take in consideration the causes (or the energies that maintain a certain situation) and the actions that are trying to change it (in good or in better). With whom the activist are fighting and with whom they are working with? If they did some progress up to know , why the progress in the Southern countries is still not that visible? Therefore – if we understand all this, what should we do next?

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The outlooks of the future indubitably grow gloomier with every day passing. The two main problems which brook no delay in their solving are the food crisis and the energy one. The constantly increasing population of the Earth is putting a great strain on the exploited resources thus depleting them too fast. In this essay I shall propose ways for coping with both of these causes for worries and anxiety.

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It pops up in the media regularly. A hydra headed monster which has posed serious threat to man’s survival. Generally referred to as food and energy crisis, one wonders whether there is no more land to grow food or that energy resources are beyond man’s reach. Some say the world increasing population is the bane of the issue. This essay proposes way out of the problem in a pragmatic way.

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By using well known global solutions in connection with educated, proactive individuals who have clear goals and do sustainable actions, world can make significant steps for its improvement. Gandhi said, that it’s up to us how we will make our world look like, and food and energy crisis are only beginning of what is going to came into existence if humans don’t start act immediately. My experiences during communism, war and capitalism, had teach me that educated people who are ready to make effort and don’t blame government for world they are living in, are key factor for change.

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The exploitation of Earth resources has driven to a consciousness raising among the public opinion about the planet sustainability in the future. We daily face with the unequal distribution of resources among the different part of the world. It is our own duty to save all the possible resources avoiding their waste. As we can easily see in our private life there are several strategies that we can adopt to save some resources. In order to face this, people mindset could be changed, new approaches could be adopted and new technologies should be employed.

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Due to on-going economic crisis the number of starving people has increased. It is a responsibility of developed countries to help those who need it. The help must be better organised, more elaborate and sustainable than it is at present. Instead of bringing food leftovers to suffering countries, we should better provide them with education, new agricultural technologies, encourage and enable them to produce food on their own. While thinking about new food technologies we should not strictly refuse genetically modified plants if they can contribute to improving or even saving human lives.

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At present, the food and energy crisis must be solved in the framework of global economic and financial crisis. Paradoxically, this global crisis can help to solve the above problems if governments of the most developed countries combine their effort for the well-being at international level. Difficult technical solutions of alternative renewable resources are in principle real while to give the hungry people is for our developed society too hard.

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Today the food and energy crisis is different depending on where you live. It is a matter of where ones priorities lie. However, the crisis of today will not likely disappear with a constant increase of the world’s population a long side an increasing concern of our climate. Radical and brave decisions must be made by politicians around the world. Moreover, to reach agreements with large impacts the political leaders needs to come closer. One way to reach that is to aim towards a more equal world that collectively can work for a sustainable improvement of societies well being.

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The food and energy crises are interlinked. Higher oil prices have led to higher transportation costs and to the conversion of large areas of agricultural land for the production of biofuels, which in turn has led to higher food prices, increasing the number of malnourished and starving people all over the world. These two crises have to be tackled at the same time by investment in alternative renewable energy as far as energy is concerned, humanitarian and financial aid to those affected, increase in sustainable agricultural productivity, cooperation among states, academia, industries and local people.

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Food crisis, energy crisis, global financial crisis, economic crisis… It may seem that the world always suffers from crises, but on the ground of overpopulation, these problems are aggravating. A traditional farming lifestyle completely disappeared and people became slaves of the market – but if there is not enough food on the market, what will we do? Will we choose the step towards GMOs or step back to traditional gardening? Another problem is the shortage of land and replacing food crops by bio-fuel crops which means less and less food for more and more people in the world.

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Mankind has been facing food and energy limits on all different stages of society. Growth of freedom, productivity and innovations has been the main reason man has been victorious throughout the history. This triangle is necessary for rational human action. There’s a lot to do in developing countries, but developed world has some duties too. On the first place stands promoting free, unbiased information, which is essential for activating natural human action to secure energy and food safety for the future.

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The world is not at a dead end. Starving populations may not have a clue what sustainable development is and developed countries may persist in overconsumption. The key to our problem is unity and common visions. The efforts to face the crises should be coordinated globally. Although quality minds and scientific breakthroughs can successfully contribute, education for all people is urgent so as they are motivated to act. Our situation is deteriorating but not irreversible, for mankind has the instinct to protect its and other species.

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While the population of Earth is growing faster then our technological knowledge, we need some time for science to keep up with us. For that, we could use the help of the almighty marketing, and sell the idea of a new, minimalist man as a role model for our society.

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Situation all around the world is becoming critical and calling for reformation. It is not easy to find the beginning of all the problems while all of them are linked with direct or roundabout connection. Energy and food crisis are complicated topics with no easy solution. Whether we like it or not, if we want to solve those problems, food-sufrited citizens of developed world will have to sacrifice part of their well-being.

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Our unrelenting quest for more and more industrialization, powered by cheap energy has indeed brought prosperity. Energy will continue to remain vital but not from the major source as we know it today- fossil fuels. This is so because its abundance or lack has been that of crisis and conflict. High energy prices triggered high food prices while cheap oil increases consumption which raises pollution levels. We should not bask in the euphoria that we have fared better than our forefathers, except we bequeath a healthy planet to our unborn kids by diversifying into a cleaner form of energy.

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Food and energy are becoming scarce resources and with today’s growth rates, we could be confronted with shortages in less than 50 years. Alternative energy sources are being researched, sometimes in the detriment of other resources, such as food. Both poor and rich nations are struggling to find solutions to the food crisis, but are finding that long-term measures might take too long to satisfy current needs. Billions are being invested in research, but too little in awareness and resource management. Perhaps the ultimate solution comes not only from new technologies but from more rationally using the ones we have.

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For the past few years we have managed to put our lives in difficulty because we try to find new solutions to our problems. Our priorities have been measured without any serious thoughts. The quality of life these days is something most of us take for granted. It takes some radically different experience and challenge to make certain changes. But what comes next? Our madness has brought us to the edge.

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Nowadays many problems have occurred like famine, energy crisis and recession. While we could not prevent them, we have to find solutions to improve the situation. It is known that land is limited, so we have to increase its productivity by bringing production to high up. An idea was published in a journal about a glasshouse. Another suggestion is to pursue ecologically sustainable development, which means using natural materials and not promoting production or import. People should also organise more competitions like this and support wise man unions, so that good ideas could be brought to public and together followed up.

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Faced with the generalised crisis that characterises modern society, what is acquired is a widespread shift of emphasis on the common way of living. The adoption of a sustainable and eco-sufficient social model, in combination with an appropriate technology and an ecologically sustainable, decentralising economic system, constitute methods that will contribute to the confrontation of such problems as food and energy crisis. Nevertheless, what is vital in order to guarantee the improvement of society’s well-being is people’s motivation: only the convenient awareness, the cultivation of new sufficiently attractive lifestyles could accomplish the "transformation" of the cultural identity of modern society.

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We must appreciate our fellow human beings, and change our attitudes and priorities, to reveal the already present energy and strength that can heal world hunger.

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This essay deals with the question if our (western) society despite the challenges provided by food and energy crises can improve its well-being. I approach the topic not from an idealistic but from a more rational viewpoint. After a short introduction I divide the topic into two parts. First, I deal with the question of food then I continue with the issue of energy, which is closely related to the questions of availability of mineral resources. Finally, in the conclusion of this essay I provide an answer to the question in title.

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The main goal of the sustainable development project is the well-being of society as well as the preservation of nature. It is recognized that the man – as a moral subject – is responsible and that he is capable of thinking and acting for the future. Philosopher Dieter Birnbacher – the author of the book “Responsibility for future generations” argues that this required man’s capabilities should be only shaped but it is possible in culture conditions where the value is also long-term time, this time that nature works in.

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In my essay I have tried to write about the worldwide energy and food crisis. I have started to show off some problems in the global community with the production and distribution of food, followed by a short explanation of the today energy crisis with my own opinion and a solution suggestion. I have to say that my essay is quite bad and unreflected, but I have tried and learned fromm y failure to start my work earlier and with more concentration.

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Crisis and well-being are concepts that should be clearly defined in order to find the proper causes that lead to such a food and energy crisis. Is crisis a subjective matter? What is the role of education in shaping a state of well-being? Should we, as individuals, do something to change the world we are living in? What are the main values that should be taught in schools? The answers to these questions, the main causes and solutions to the food and energy crisis are being illustrated using my own experience and carrying on with general literary statements.

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The world food and energy crises are highly interlinked problems stemming from the fact that we have largely rejected the practices of food cultivation in gardens, the traditional focus of all human societies, which has brought them knowledge about nature, patience, health and enjoyment. Much more of the food we eat could be produced in and around our society, in many small, diverse food gardens, protecting the soil, enriching our diets and teaching children the cultural value of food and its centrality to our existence, while simultaneously reducing our dangerous and unsustainable dependency on unrenewable energy and capricious financial markets.

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This is a defining moment in the history of humanity. On the basis of such assumption, the onus is on our society to harness, manage and leverage knowledge and learn the lessons from the earlier episodes of recession and crisis. The moral of the story is sobering and should be held front and centre for “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it". Hence, what can history teach us? How can we confront with the plague of food and energy shortage now that the consumerism is in its apogee? In the lines to follow, the overall concept will be unfolded.

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Facing the crisis may tell us and teach us what we had done badly before and show the mistakes and circumstances which influenced this economic status.Inconsistence and the diversity of the proposals and solutions can cause a panic state.Both of the crisis,economic and food, ought to be manipulated to cooperate together not to stand against each other.Solving of the crisis is like mathematics.The crisis solution formula brings many numbers in this dangerous game.Even tough we know all those numbers we do not know the result.

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The aim must be for all countries to become self-sufficient when it comes to food and energy. Support to farmers should only be allowed as long as that nation lacks self-sufficiency, otherwise the food market might get distorted. At the same time it is important to pull down on fossil fuels and increase renewable fuels. But the responsibility must be transferred from consumers to politicians. Only our elected officials can with tools as legislation, taxation and funding research and technology ensure sustainable change.

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Looks like an easy equation: Some elements, including food and energy supply, result in well-being. So we just had to work technically on the elements, to get the necessary amount and right mix for being well? But the condition for this solution is taking well-being as fixed. Compared with different times and cultures we see that it’s nothing less than that. Well-being is a feeling and as such it depends on expectations. The task is to lower our expectations and to aim for a new lifestyle which is not dependent on the things around us.

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The food and fuel crises are largely a question of energy security and development which are essential for both human and societal progress. By shifting our vision of energy from scarcity to assets with multiple forms, we can uncover ways in which existing institutional capacities can increase societal well-being despite growing concerns over economic and resource constraints. This requires acknowledging the differing demands in the developed and developing world with a focus on small-scale infrastructure reform. Thus, by enhancing household resilience tied to an agenda of industry growth, societal development progresses in tandem with increasing awareness of accounting environmental assets.

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The global energy and food crisis has been a stark reminder that environmental and resource issues must be addressed by everyone because the consequences are truly diverse and far reaching. In these critical times the global debate about the future of our planet has an air of urgency, as we strive to make the transition to a sustainable society. The time is ripe for truly global discussions and solutions, as our societies begin to experience the results of our catastrophic mismanagement of resources.

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Our world today is burdened by immediate wants and desires with little consideration for future generations. The political leaders and governments of many countries have only one finite, natural resources as the medium on which most of their economy and infrastructure has been built. In order for basic human activity including business, production and manufacture of food to actually happen, there must be a source of energy which for the past decade or more has depended on natural gas and oil. Many studies show that we are nearing the end of the oil- driven civilisation as oil stores are running out. There are plans being made around the world for alternative methods of generating energy for example wind energy, and nuclear energy. In developing countries like Somalia, however, forward planning and innovation is the least of their worries as majority of their young population are dead or dying due to an inadequate food supply ; a very basic human right. Needless to say, there is no time and no point even bothering about energy provision and building infrastructure in these nations as the concern of highest priority is maintaining survival of the starving members of the human race. Thus, we have a clear divide between the nations of the world; those with more than enough food to feed the population and enough energy to drive roller coasters at theme parks and those who only dream of an era of constant electricity and who plant seeds with the hope of food to eat after harvest time.

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Understanding our food and energy crises must lead us to first understand that they stem from the perpetual inefficient usage of resources. With that established, it is then imperative upon us to devise a way to grow out of such usage. Crucially though, it takes two to tango: how we step out of this age of reliance on unsustainable sources and processes depends on the twin play between governments making sound policy decisions and spearheading massive change while we as citizens take on the challenge to change our lifestyles in making responsible choices.

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The essay is discussing social entrepreneurship as a possible approach to society’s well-being and furthermore, as an exclusive opportunity for young people to develop their skills and abilities and at the same time to contribute and make a positive change for their society. Young people are seen as the ones capable of making a difference and employing alternative approaches to solving difficult problems. Some examples of successful initiatives are given as a proof that social entrepreneurship can support society’s development and improve its well-being.

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“Nothing in Excess”- this old, Doric saying carved on the temple in Delphi sounds incredibly accurate when talking about global food and energy crisis. Especially while investigating reasons of those economic phenomena in time of world financial crisis. The question about ways of improving its well being, that society can put into practice, is probably not very well posed according to the actual world financial situation. This question actual half a year ago now should ask about ideas to keep the standard of living that societies are used to. What’s more – societies touched by the crisis in amazingly different scale.

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Energy and food are fundamental to human existence and therefore it should not come as a surprise that the way mankind have being using these resources produce the heart of many environmental problems that have emerged in recent years. As the population of the earth is flourishing different types of pollution are invading planet earth, but the emissions from the combustion of fuels in power stations and cars are probably the most worrying for most people, given the impact of air quality on health and the impact of flooding in certain parts of the world. More generally the use of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, gas and fertilisers is increasingly seen as having major global environmental impacts such as global warming and eutrofication. There are also major concerns over the risk of release of radioactive materials taking the example of Chernobyl in 1986 as these sources are the substructure in what many describe an unsustainable form of industrial society, as the environment is used as a free resource of energy and other materials and as a more or less infinite sink for wastes, with the ratio and measure of the ‘throughput’ from source to sink growing ever greater. To therefore investigate if society can improve its well being a further investigation is required in relevant topics that will enable an individual to understand its theories and plots.

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The causes of the food and energy crises are various and complex, therefore the solutions to them are likely to be similar. The essay hence focuses first on analyzing the origins of the problems, basing the constructive suggestions upon them. In the case of food crisis, it is down to sustainable agricultural practices, but issues such as fair trade agreements and peace resolution to conflicts appear equally important. Regarding the energy crisis, the way to sustainability will encompass switching to renewable energies, which will require creating jobs in this sector, technological advancements and pressure on economies to adopt such policies.

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If food and energy, in contrast to a fast-growing population, should suffice for everyone the industrial countries have to reduce their consumption, which contains a change of our habits, accompanied with consequences for our lifestyle and the present industry. Economical and political precursors are still rare. Do-It-Yourself subcultures try to take on that role. Confronted with an energy crisis and, even worse, a following food crisis these young activists try to improve society’s well-being while suggesting new revolutionary concepts to set a good example. They offer a possibility of conservation- and energy conscious consumption, and raise awareness of the current problems while facing the latest developments with alternative businesses and a good piece of idealism.

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Western countries should realize that the whole planet faces a food and energy crisis without precedents. Faced with this situation it is necessary to take measures that involve to the industry, centered in making aware of this problem to the people and in the development of new techniques that reduce the dependence of the fossil fuels and allow a bigger production of foods. All this coordinated by the international organisms.

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Hunger and poverty are still some of the biggest issues in the 21st century, because almost half of the world's population struggles with these problems every day. Despite the help of human development organizations hunger increases more and more and is present in almost every country in the world today. Hunger affects much of the world's population and it can only be resolved if everyone unites to fight against it.

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What humankind used to do the best, is struggling to survive. When necessities are incumbent, then wit takes form in the right place and time. While defending the revolution, in socialist Cuba during the crisis following the collapse of the Soviet Union, efforts were made to reach a self-sufficiency that would permit the island to be independent from the rest of the world. The task has not been fully accomplished yet, but so far incredible results have been reached. One of those is the emergence of Urban Agriculture, as answer to the food shortage.

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Everyone wants sustainable improvement of well-being. Therefore should consider one of the most important aspects of life - HEALTH. According to WHO definition, the heath is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.