Summary

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.