Summary

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.