Summary

At a first glance it might seem that food and energy crisis can only disable our efforts of improving human well-being. On the second look though, we might perceive the coming crisis as an incentive of improvement. Our well-being can be improved in days of crisis by understanding what well-being really means and by developing its aspects that have been, due to our emphasis on material side, neglected for a long time. But the material side can be improved as well, by developing efficiency at every aspects of our private and public life.