Summary

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.