Summary

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.