Defaulting banks - where will it stop?

[Mark Stapleton]

There is enough food to feed everyone. There is enough of everything for everyone. It is not that the planet is infested with human beings it is that it is infested with a particular type of mentality and that is especially true for many of those that see themselves as 'leaders', 'rulers', 'elite' etc. They have never encouraged self sufficiency or ever distributed the socially created resources, products and its profits in an equitable way. Because that is all this is. A matter of organisation and distribution. It is man made not a natural disaster. As we can see there is a total lack of imagination about what to do for the people and the best they can do is bail out banks, insurance companies and car makers which is akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Instead of spending their money on recreating feudalism and setting up Madrasas and and underwriting fundamentalist religions of all kinds they could have spent it on educating the female half of the world. Where ever the female population has high literacy and education and autonomy there are low birth rates.

While I agree with you about the lack of an adequate global food distribution system, I disagree about there being adequate food for everyone.

If, as some scientists suggest, global warming results in the collapse of the gulf stream, then the ocean will cease to function as a food source.