My Glorious Food Security Delusion

Michael Nabert
13 min readJan 27

Doing everything right won’t be enough.

Photo by author. The biggest green pole bean from our garden last year was 34 cm long and weighed 49g.

The age of plenty is over.

For decades, humanity has grown far more food every year than it would take to ensure that none of Earth’s multitudes ever went to bed hungry even once. Starvation in the world we grew up in only happened because our sharing skills suck. Manipulating food prices to starve hungry people…

Michael Nabert

Researching a road map from our imperilled world into one with a livable future with as much good humour as I can muster along the way.