Summary

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.